must know dates for the ap world exam
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| 5241409385 | 8000 B.C.E | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
| 5241409386 | 3000 B.C.E | Beginnings of Bronze Age- early civilization | 1 | |
| 5241409387 | 1300 B.C.E | Iron Age | 2 | |
| 5241409388 | 6th century B.C.E | life of Buddah, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddism, Taosim) | 3 | |
| 5241409389 | 5th century B.C.E | Greek Golden Age-Philiosophers | 4 | |
| 5241409390 | 323 B.C.E | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
| 5241409391 | 221 B.C.E | Qin unified China | 6 | |
| 5241409392 | 32 C.E | Beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
| 5241409393 | 180 C.E | end of Pax Romana | 8 | |
| 5241409394 | 220 C.E | end of the Han dynasty | 9 | |
| 5241409395 | 333 C.E | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
| 5241409396 | 4th century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan trade routes | 11 | |
| 5241409397 | 476 | fall of Rome | 12 | |
| 5241409398 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
| 5241409399 | 622 | founding of Islam | 14 | |
| 5241409400 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France | 15 | |
| 5241409401 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) | 16 | |
| 5241409402 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
| 5241409403 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire) | 18 | |
| 5241409404 | 1095 | 1st crusade | 19 | |
| 5241409405 | 1258 | Monglos sack Baghdad | 20 | |
| 5241409406 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
| 5241409407 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
| 5241409408 | 1325-1349 | travel of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
| 5241409409 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
| 5241409410 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
| 5241409411 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
| 5241409412 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
| 5241409413 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
| 5241409414 | 1502 | 1st Slaves to Americas | 29 | |
| 5241409415 | 1517 | Marin Luther/ 95 theses | 30 | |
| 5241409416 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
| 5241409417 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca Empire | 32 | |
| 5241409418 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
| 5241409419 | 1588 | defeaat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
| 5241409420 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
| 5241409421 | 1607 | foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
| 5241409422 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
| 5241409423 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
| 5241409424 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
| 5241409425 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian War | 40 | |
| 5241409426 | 1776 | American Revolution /Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
| 5241409427 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
| 5241409428 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 43 | |
| 5241409429 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
| 5241409430 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
| 5241409431 | 1839 | 1st opiem war in China | 46 | |
| 5241409432 | 1848 | European revoltuions/marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
| 5241409433 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
| 5241409434 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
| 5241409435 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 50 | |
| 5241409436 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
| 5241409437 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
| 5241409438 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
| 5241409439 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - Us acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
| 5241409440 | 1899 | Boer War- British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
| 5241409441 | 1905 | Russo-japanese war | 56 | |
| 5241409442 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
| 5241409443 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
| 5241409444 | 1914 | WWI | 59 | |
| 5241409445 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
| 5241409446 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles- end of WWI | 61 | |
| 5241409447 | 1929 | stock market crash | 62 | |
| 5241409448 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
| 5241409449 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
| 5241409450 | 1939 | German blitzkieg in Poland | 65 | |
| 5241409451 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
| 5241409452 | 1945 | end of WWII | 67 | |
| 5241409453 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 68 | |
| 5241409454 | 1948 | birth of Isreal | 69 | |
| 5241409455 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
| 5241409456 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 71 | |
| 5241409457 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
| 5241409458 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez canal | 73 | |
| 5241409459 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
| 5241409460 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 75 | |
| 5241409461 | 1967 | 6 day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
| 5241409462 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 77 | |
| 5241409463 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
| 5241409464 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
| 5241409465 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | 80 | |
| 5241409466 | 1991 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 81 | |
| 5241409467 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa | 82 | |
| 5241409468 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 83 |
