"Must-Know" Dates Answer Key
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| 6982019061 | Foundations | (9000 B.C.E. - 600 C.E.) | 0 | |
| 6976640356 | c. 9000 B.C.E. | Domestication of animals | 1 | |
| 6976576836 | c. 8000 B.C.E | Beginnings of agriculture | 2 | |
| 6976578237 | c. 3000 B.C.E | Beginnings of Bronze Age- early civ's | 3 | |
| 6976582607 | 1300 B.C.E | Iron Age | 4 | |
| 6976584414 | 6th C B.C.E. | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi (Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism) | 5 | |
| 6976592023 | 5th C B.C.E. | Greek Golden Age- philosophers | 6 | |
| 6976593177 | 403-221 B.C.E. | (China's) Era of Warring States | 7 | |
| 6976600824 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great dies | 8 | |
| 6976604495 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin Dynasty unified China | 9 | |
| 6976606778 | 184 B.C.E. | Fall of Mauryan Dynasty | 10 | |
| 6976613970 | 32 C.E. | Beginnings of Christianity | 11 | |
| 6976614404 | 180 | End of Pax Romana | 12 | |
| 6976617884 | 220 | End of Han Dynasty | 13 | |
| 6976620076 | 312 | Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 14 | |
| 6976621184 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 15 | |
| 6976622329 | 4th C | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 16 | |
| 6976624225 | 476 | "Fall" of Rome | 17 | |
| 6976629275 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 18 | |
| 6976630851 | 550 | Fall of Gupta Dynasty/Empire | 19 | |
| 6982030650 | 600-1450 | 20 | ||
| 6976637508 | 622 | Founding of Islam | 21 | |
| 6976638040 | c. 730 | Printing invented in China | 22 | |
| 6976643276 | 732 | Battle of Tours (End of Muslim move into France) | 23 | |
| 6976643907 | c. 900 | Decline of classical Maya | 24 | |
| 6976644645 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) | 25 | |
| 6976647434 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 26 | |
| 6976648457 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine army) | 27 | |
| 6976650330 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 28 | |
| 6976650552 | 1206 | Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests | 29 | |
| 6976651322 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate | 30 | |
| 6976653640 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | 31 | |
| 6976654779 | 1279-1368 | Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China | 32 | |
| 6976655858 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage/hajj | 33 | |
| 6976657320 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 34 | |
| 6976658133 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 35 | |
| 6976660420 | 1368-1644 | Ming Dynasty | 36 | |
| 6976660791 | 1405-1433 | Zheng He's voyages | 37 | |
| 6976661952 | 1438 | Rise of Inca Empire | 38 | |
| 6982032318 | 1450-1750 | 39 | ||
| 6976663136 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 40 | |
| 6976664412 | 1450s | Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg) | 41 | |
| 6976666442 | ca 1480s | Height of Aztec Empire | 42 | |
| 6976666902 | 1488 | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope | 43 | |
| 6976668508 | 1492 | Columbus/Reconquista of Spain | 44 | |
| 6976668509 | 1502 | 1st African Slaves to Americas | 45 | |
| 6976668970 | 1517 | Martin Luther/Prot Reformation | 46 | |
| 6976668971 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 47 | |
| 6976668972 | 1529 | 1st unsuccessful ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman) | 48 | |
| 6976669239 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 49 | |
| 6976669240 | 1545 | Discovery of silver at Potosi | 50 | |
| 6976669241 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat) | 51 | |
| 6976669458 | 1571 | 1st Manila Galleon (global trade) | 52 | |
| 6976669459 | 1588 | Spanish Armada | 53 | |
| 6976669460 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara (Beg of Tokugawa Shogunate) | 54 | |
| 6976669743 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 55 | |
| 6976669940 | 1618-1648 | 30 Years War | 56 | |
| 6976669941 | 1644 | End of Ming/Beg of Qing Dynasty | 57 | |
| 6976669942 | 1653 | Cape Town colony founded (Dutch) | 58 | |
| 6976670211 | 1683 | 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) | 59 | |
| 6976670834 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill Of Rights | 60 | |
| 6982033627 | 1750-1900 | Industrial Revolution | 61 | |
| 6982039370 | 1756-1763 | 7 Years War (French and Indian War) | 62 | |
| 6982041702 | 1767 | Invention of the Spinning Jenny (Using machines to manufacture) | 63 | |
| 6982044364 | 1776 | Decl. of Independence (American Rev) | 64 | |
| 6982048457 | 1776 | Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 65 | |
| 6982054075 | 1789 | French Revolution begins | 66 | |
| 6982058059 | 1796 | Jenner's smallpox vaccine | 67 | |
| 6982059101 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 68 | |
| 6982067212 | 1807 | British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade | 69 | |
| 6982069002 | 1807-08 | Janissary Revolt | 70 | |
| 6982077283 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 71 | |
| 6982078926 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 72 | |
| 6982093161 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | 73 | |
| 6982095777 | 1839-1878 | Tanzimat Reforms | 74 | |
| 6982097098 | 1848 | Marx & Engles' The Communist Manifesto | 75 | |
| 6982104202 | 1848-1849 | European revolutions | 76 | |
| 6982106553 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 77 | |
| 6982107738 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 78 | |
| 6982110288 | 1861 | End of Russian serfdom | 79 | |
| 6982111434 | 1861-1865 | U.S. Civil War | 80 | |
| 6982113509 | 1861-1870 | Italian unification | 81 | |
| 6982114222 | 1863 | U.S. Emancipation Proclamation | 82 | |
| 6982118726 | 1871 | German unification | 83 | |
| 6982119591 | 1885 | Berlin Conference division of Africa (Begins "Scramble for Africa") | 84 | |
| 6982122612 | 1893 | New Zealand grants women suffrage | 85 | |
| 6982123696 | 1896 | Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) | 86 | |
| 6982125293 | 1898 | Spanish-American War (The US acquires Phillippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico) | 87 | |
| 6982137780 | 1899-1902 | Boer War (British in control of S Africa) | 88 | |
| 6982141630 | 1900-1950 | 89 | ||
| 6982141631 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war | 90 | |
| 6982142532 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown) | 91 | |
| 6982206878 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution (End of Qing) | 92 | |
| 7044760399 | 1914-1918 | World War I | 93 | |
| 7172727684 | 1917 (March) | Russian Revolution (Czar Abdicates) | 94 | |
| 7172737867 | 1917 (Oct/Nov) | 95 |
