AP World History - Dates Flashcards

6789710308	8000 BCE	Neolithic Revolution	0
6789715049	3000 BCE	Beginning of Bronze Age	1
6789715050	1300 BCE	Beginning of Iron Age	2
6789801820	323 BCE	Death of Alexander the Great	3
6789718986	221 BCE	Formation of Qin dynasty	4
6789798206	185 BCE	Fall of Mauryan dynasty	5
6789719625	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	6
6789723270	220 CE	Fall of Han dynasty	7
6789726022	313 CE	Emp. Constantine issues Edict of Milan, adopting Christianity	8
6789797224	330 CE	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	9
6789728244	476 CE	Fall of Rome	10
6789818763	550 CE	Fall of Gupta dynasty	11
6789729142	622 CE	Beginnings of Islam	12
6789737698	732 CE	Battle of Tours, halts Muslim expansion into Europe	13
6789731007	1054	Great Schism in Europe	14
6789859255	1066	Norman conquest of England	15
6789861808	1071	Battle of Manzikert - Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantium	16
6789732155	1095	First Crusade begins	17
6789864223	1206	Temujin declared khan Beginning of Mongol conquests	18
6789732156	1258	Sack of Baghdad by the Mongols	19
6789866534	1271-1295	Marco Polo's travels	20
6789868592	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage and travels begin	21
6789870134	1325-1349	Ibn Battuta's travels	22
6789872077	1347-1348	Bubonic plague sweeps Europe	23
6789873656	1405-1433	Zheng He's voyages	24
6789771911	1453	Constantinople falls to the Ottomans	25
6789776027	1488	B. Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope	26
6789776940	1492	Completion of Spanish Reconquista	27
6789777419	1492	Columbus discovers the Americas for Europe	28
6789778377	1517	Luther publishes 95 Theses	29
6789779383	1521	Cortez defeats Aztecs	30
6789903356	1529	Siege of Vienna halts Ottoman expansion into Europe	31
6789780347	1533	Pizarro defeats Incas	32
6789904695	1545	Silver discovered at Potosi	33
6789905434	1588	Spanish Armada defeated by English and storms	34
6789909382	1600	Tokugawa rule begins in Japan	35
6789781962	1607	Founding of Jamestown	36
6789911049	1618-1648	Thirty Years' War	37
6789911050	1644	Fall of Ming dynasty	38
6789911584	1688	Glorious Revolution in England	39
6789916655	1689	Creation of English Bill of Rights	40
6789917676	1756-1763	Seven Years' War	41
6789948839	1764	Spinning Jenny invented	42
6789948840	1776	American Revolution: Declaration of Independence	43
6789951147	1789	Start of French Revolution	44
6789951148	1804	Haitian independence and abolition of slavery	45
6789951727	1807	Britain and US abolish transatlantic slave trade	46
6789952378	1815	Congress of Vienna: European nations try to find balance of power	47
6789953684	1820s	Decade of Latin American independence	48
6789954989	1839-1842	First Opium War	49
6789955761	1848	Communist Manifesto written (and proofread)	50
6789956293	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	51
6789957765	1857	Sepoy Mutiny in India	52
6789958317	1861	End of Russian serfdom	53
6789959020	1863	End of slavery in US with Emancipation Proclamation	54
6789960042	1871	German and Italian unification completed	55
6789961059	1884-1885	Berlin Conference	56
6789962355	1896	Battle of Adwa: Ethiopia defeats Italians, retains its independence	57
6789963123	1898	Spanish-American War	58
6789963890	1899-1902	Boer War in South Africa	59
6789965034	1905	Russo-Japanese War	60
6790029884	1911	Fall of Qing dyansty	61
6790029885	1911	Porfirio Diaz overthrown in Mexico	62
6790030799	1914-1918	World War I	63
6790031204	1917	Russian Czar abdicates	64
6790031965	1917	Russian Revolution and Communist takeover	65
6790032956	1918	End of WWI	66
6790032957	1919	Treaty of Versailles signed	67
6790034321	1928	Kellogg-Briand Pact tries to outlaw war	68
6790035059	1929	Stock market crash and beginning of Great Depression	69
6790036327	1931	Japan invades Manchuria	70
6790036827	1935	Italy invades Ethiopia	71
6790036828	1937	Japan invades China	72
6790037180	1939	Japan invades Poland	73
6790037181	1941	Pearl Harbor bombings	74
6790037883	1945	Yalta Conference	75
6790038408	1945	Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese surrender	76
6790039699	1947	Truman Doctrine	77
6790040284	1947	Indian independence and partition	78
6790041108	1948	Birth of Israel	79
6790041691	1948-1949	Berlin Blockade and Airlift	80
6790041692	1949	NATO founded	81
6790042179	1949	End of Chinese Communist Revolution	82
6790130835	1950-1953	Korean War	83
6790130836	1954	Vietnam expels French	84
6790131276	1956	Suez Canal nationalized	85
6790131625	1957	Sputnik launched, beginning of space race	86
6790132457	1959	Cuban Revolution	87
6790133429	1962	Cuban Missile Crisis	88
6790133878	1966-1976	Chinese Cultural Revolution	89
6790133879	1967	6-Day War	90
6790134567	1973	Yom Kippur War	91
6790135041	1973	OPEC Embargo	92
6790135042	1979	Socialist Market economy begins in China, under Deng Xiaoping	93
6790135727	1979	Iran Revolution	94
6790137107	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada: uprising against Israelis	95
6790137853	1989	Tiananmen Square: protests and massacre	96
6790138906	1989	Berlin Wall falls	97
6790139366	1990	Namibia gains independence from South Africa - last African nation to gain independence	98
6790140761	1991	Gulf War	99
6790141245	1991	Disillusion of USSR	100
6790141748	1994	Rwandan genocide	101
6790141749	1994	End of apartheid in South Africa	102
6790142673	2001	9/11 attacks	103
6790143290	2003	US invades Iraq	104
6790143291	2008	Global Great Recession	105
6790144561	2011	Arab Spring	106

Class Notes

Social Science

Math

Science

Fine Arts

Test Prep

Textbook Notes

Members Only

Forum

Blogs

Textbook Request

AP World History - Dates Flashcards

Primary tabs

Need Help?

Need Notes?

About Course-Notes.Org

You are here

AP World History - Dates Flashcards

Primary tabs

Need Help?

Need Notes?

About Course-Notes.Org