A list of must know dates for World History.
374483309 | 8000 B.C.E | Beginnings of agriculture. | 0 | |
374483310 | 3000 B.C.E | Beginnings of Bronze Age - Start of early civilizations | 1 | |
374483311 | 1300 B.C.E | Iron Age | 2 | |
374483312 | 6th Century B.C.E | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 3 | |
374483313 | 323 B.C.E | Death of Alexander the Great | 4 | |
374483314 | 221 B.C.E | Qin dynasty unifies China | 5 | |
374483315 | 32 C.E | Beginnings of Christianity | 6 | |
374483316 | 180 | End of Pax Romana | 7 | |
374483317 | 220 | End of Han Dynasty | 8 | |
374483318 | 333 | Roman capital moves to Constantinople. | 9 | |
374483319 | 4th Century | Beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes. | 10 | |
374483320 | 476 | Fall of Rome | 11 | |
374483321 | 527 | Justinian's rule of Byzantine Empire. | 12 | |
374483322 | 632 | Rise of Islam | 13 | |
374483323 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France.) | 14 | |
374483324 | 1054 | 1st Schism in Christian Church | 15 | |
374483325 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 16 | |
374483326 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine.) | 17 | |
374483327 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 18 | |
374483328 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad. | 19 | |
374483329 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | 20 | |
374786472 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage. | 21 | |
374786473 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta. | 22 | |
374786474 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe. | 23 | |
374786475 | 1433 | End of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of the Ottomans | 24 | |
374786476 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople. | 25 | |
374786477 | 1488 | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope. | 26 | |
374786478 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/Reconquista of Spain | 27 | |
374786479 | 1502 | Slaves to Americas | 28 | |
374786480 | 1517 | Martin Luther's 95 thesis | 29 | |
374786481 | 1521 | Cortez conquers the Aztecs. | 30 | |
374786482 | 1533 | Pizarro topples the Inca. | 31 | |
374786483 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto(naval defeat of Ottomans) | 32 | |
374786484 | 1588 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British. | 33 | |
374786485 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 34 | |
374786486 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown. | 35 | |
374786487 | 1618-1648 | 30 Years War | 36 | |
374786488 | 1683 | Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna. | 37 | |
374786489 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 38 | |
374786490 | 1750-1850 | Industrial Revolution | 39 | |
374786491 | 1756-1763 | 7 Years War/French and Indian War | 40 | |
374786492 | 1776 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
374786493 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
374786494 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 43 | |
374786495 | 1820's | Independence in Latin America | 44 | |
374786496 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | 45 | |
374786497 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx and Engels writes The Communist Manifesto. | 46 | |
374786498 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 47 | |
374786499 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 48 | |
374786500 | 1861 | End of Russian Serfdom/Italian unification | 49 | |
374786501 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 50 | |
374786502 | 1871 | German unification | 51 | |
374786503 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - Division of Africa | 52 | |
374786504 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico | 53 | |
374786505 | 1899 | Boer War - British control in South Africa | 54 | |
374786506 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 55 | |
374786507 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 56 | |
374786508 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 57 | |
374786509 | 1914 | Start of WWI | 58 | |
374786510 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 59 | |
374786511 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 60 | |
374786512 | 1929 | Stock market crash | 61 | |
374786513 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 62 | |
374786514 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 63 | |
374786515 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland - Start of WWII | 64 | |
374786516 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII | 65 | |
374786517 | 1945 | End of WWII | 66 | |
374786518 | 1947 | Independence and partition of India | 67 | |
374786519 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 68 | |
374786520 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 69 | |
374786521 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 70 | |
374786522 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 71 | |
374786523 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 72 | |
374786524 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 73 | |
374786525 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 74 | |
374786526 | 1967 | 6-day War/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 75 | |
374786527 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 76 | |
374786528 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 77 | |
374786529 | 1987 | 1st Palestine Intifada | 78 | |
374786530 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/Fall of Berlin Wall | 79 | |
374786531 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 80 | |
374786532 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda/1st all race election in South Africa | 81 | |
374786533 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 82 |