2452546816 | 8000 BCE | beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
2452548789 | 3000 BCE | beginnings of Bronze Age- early civilizations | 1 | |
2452549719 | 1700's BCE | Hammurabi Code | 2 | |
2452551169 | 1500 BCE | early alphabetic script/Beginnings of Hinduism in India | 3 | |
2452553477 | 1300 BCE | Iron age | 4 | |
2452555220 | 900 BCE- 600 BCE | Assyrian Empire | 5 | |
2452556233 | 500 BCE | life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginning of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 6 | |
2452587189 | 500 - 44BCE | Roman republic | 7 | |
2459026986 | 400 BCE | Greek Golden age | 8 | |
2459027259 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 9 | |
2459027629 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 10 | |
2459030689 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 11 | |
2459031267 | 180 CE | end of Pax Romana | 12 | |
2459031992 | 220 CE | End of Han dynasty | 13 | |
2459040620 | 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 14 | |
2459041527 | 400 CE | Beginning of Trans Saharan Trade routes | 15 | |
2459041844 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome | 16 | |
2459042244 | 476 CE - 1000ish CE | The Dark Ages/Medieval Period | 17 | |
2459043472 | 527 CE | Justinian rule of Byzantine empire | 18 | |
2459043812 | 589-618 CE | Sui Dynasty and return of centralizes rule to China | 19 | |
2459044390 | 632 CE | rise of Islam | 20 | |
2459044957 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 21 | |
2459045313 | 750-1250 CE | Tang and Song Dynasty oversee China's "Economic and Commercial Revolution" | 22 | |
2566836670 | 750-1258 | Abbasid Dynasty (Islamic golden age/capital of Baghdad) | 23 | |
2566838426 | 790-1100 | Rise of Vikings | 24 | |
2566838982 | 800 | Charlemagne's Coronation | 25 | |
2566839331 | 1054 | schism in Christian church | 26 | |
2566839891 | 1066 | Norman Conquest of England | 27 | |
2566840461 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 28 | |
2566841020 | 1095 | 1st crusade | 29 | |
2566841654 | 1215 | Magna Carta Signed | 30 | |
2566842211 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 31 | |
2566846052 | 1271-1295 | marco polo travels | 32 | |
2566860547 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 33 | |
2566861175 | 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battutta | 34 | |
2566862017 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 35 | |
2566863337 | 1400 | Renaissance begins | 36 | |
2566870341 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans | 37 | |
2566872157 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 38 | |
2566874051 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good hope | 39 | |
2566874854 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain | 40 | |
2566874855 | 1494 | treaty of Tordesillas and division of new world | 41 | |
2566875757 | 1502 | slaves to America | 42 | |
2566876421 | 1517 | Martin Luther/ 95 theses | 43 | |
2566877127 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 44 | |
2566878196 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 45 | |
2566880527 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 46 | |
2566880860 | 1588 | defeat of Spanish Armada | 47 | |
2566881258 | 1600 | beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan | 48 | |
2566881839 | 1607 | foundation of Jamestown | 49 | |
2566882530 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 50 | |
2566884460 | 1633 | Japans closed door policy begins | 51 | |
2566884887 | 1650 | Age of Enlightenment/reason in Europe | 52 | |
2566885555 | 1750 | Industrial Revolution begins in England | 53 | |
2566885556 | 1789 | French Revolution | 54 | |
2566887328 | 1821 | Mexican Independence (NOT revolution) | 55 | |
2566887329 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | 56 | |
2566887334 | 1839-1842 | Opium War in China | 57 | |
2566888139 | 1853 | Commodore Perry/USA open Japan | 58 | |
2566890576 | 1861 | Serfdom abolished in Russia | 59 | |
2566892480 | 1871 | Germany unifies under Bismarck | 60 | |
2566895054 | 1885 | Berlin Conference- Imperialism and the "scramble for Africa" | 61 | |
2566895714 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 62 | |
2566896139 | 1914-1918 | WWI | 63 | |
2566896140 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 64 | |
2566896693 | 1939-1945 | WWII | 65 | |
2566896694 | 1947 | Truman Doctrine/Cold war begins, India Pakistan partition | 66 | |
2566899471 | 1948 | Israel Founded/Gandhi assassinated | 67 | |
2566900118 | 1949 | People's republic of China Established | 68 | |
2566900779 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 69 | |
2566903442 | 1979 | Iranian revolution (rise of Islamism, jihad) | 70 | |
2566903443 | 1989 | Tiananmen square/fall of Berlin Wall | 71 | |
2566904083 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 72 |
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