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AP World History Must Know Dates Flashcards

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43232493848000 BCE*Beginnings of agriculture0
43232493853500 BCEInvention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia) and sail (Egypt)1
43232493863200 BCEInvention of writing in Mesopotamia2
43232493873000 BCE*Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's3
43232493881300 BCEIron Age4
43232493896th Century BCE*Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Greek Golden Age5
4323249390323 BCE*Alexander the Great6
4323249391221 BCE*Qin unified China (end of period of warring states)7
4323249392184 BCE*Fall of the Mauryan Dynasty8
432324939332 CE *Beginnings of Christianity9
4323249394180 CEend of Pax Romana10
4323249395220 CE *end of Han Dynasty11
4323249396312 CERoman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity12
4323249397320 CERise of the Gupta in India13
4323249398333 CERoman capital moved to Constantinople14
43232862794th CenturyBeginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes15
4323249399476 CEFall of Rome in the West ends 800 years of Roman Hegemony16
4323249400527 CEJustinian rules Byzantine Empire17
4323249401550 CEFall of the Gupta in India18
4323249402632 CE *Rise of Islam19
4323249403730 CEPrinting invented in China20
4323249404732 CEBattle of Tours (end of Muslim move to France)21
4323249405900 CEDecline of classical Maya22
43232494061054 CESchism of Greek and Latin Christian Churches divides Christianity permanently into two geographical and denominational halves23
43232494071066 CENorman Conquest of England (William the Conqueror, the song)24
43232494081095 CE1st Crusade25
43232494091206 CE *Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia26
43232494101215 CEMagna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede: Beginning of constitutional rule27
43232494111258 CEMongols conquer Baghdad28
43232494121271-1295 CEMarco Polo travels29
43232494131300sRise of the Ottomans30
43232494141324 CEMansa Musa's pilgrimage31
43232494151325- 1349 CETravels of Ibn Battuta32
43232494161347- 1348 CEBubonic Plague in Europe33
43232494171433 CEEnd of Zheng He's voyages34
43232494181438 CERise of the Incas35
43232494191453 CE*Ottomans capture Constantinople36
43232494201486 CEAztec Empire at it's height37
43232494211488 CEDias rounded Cape of Good Hope38
43232494221492 CE*Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/ Reconquista of Spain39
43232494231502 CE*First African slaves transported to Caribbean40
43232494241517 CEMartin Luther (95 Theses, Protestant Reformation)41
43232494251521 CECortez conquered the Aztecs42
43232494261533 CEPizarro conquered Incas43
43232494271545 CE*Silver discovered at Potosi44
43232494281571 CEBattle of Lepanto- naval defeat of Ottomans45
43232494291588 CEDefeat of the Spanish Armada46
43232494301600 CE*beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate47
43232494311607 CEFounding of Jamestown (first slaves there in 1619)48
43232494321618-1648 CE30 years war in Europe49
43232494331644 CEEnd of Ming Dynasty- rise of the Qing50
43232494341652 CEEstablishment of Cape Town Colony51
43232494351683 CEUnsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna52
43232494361689 CEGlorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights53
43232494371756-1763 CE7 years war/ French and Indian War54
43232494381760 CEAbout when the Industrial Revolution begins (steam locomotives, textiles, etc)55
43232494391767 CEInvention of the Spinning Jenny: man-using machines56
43232494401776 CEThe American Declaration of Independence57
43232494411789 CEFrench Revolution. The French Declaration of the RIghts of Man and Citizen (Olympe de Gouges' "Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen" in 1791)58
43232494421796 CEEdward Jenner's smallpox vaccination: the first real breakthrough in combating infectious diseases59
43232494431804 CE*Haitian Independence60
43232494441807 CEBritish abolition of the slave trade61
43232494451810-1825 CELatin American independence (first Mexican Revolution)62
43232494461815 CEMetternich hosts Congress of Vienna (after Battle of Waterloo: The Napoleonic Empire ends)63
43232494471839 CE1st Opium War between China and England64
43232494481848 CEEuropean Revolutions/ Marx and Engels write "Communist Manifesto"/ The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference65
43232494491853 CECommodore Perry opens Japan66
43232494501857 CE*Sepoy Mutiny in India67
43232494511861 CE*End of Russian serfdom by Alexander II/ Italian unification68
43232494521863 CE"Emancipation Proclamation" issued in US69
43232494531871 CEGerman unification70
43232494541885 CEBerlin Conference/Benz develops first petrol-driven car71
43232494551893 CENew Zealand first to give women suffrage (other nations in the Commonwealth soon follow)72
43232494561896 CEBattle of Adwa. Ethiopians fend of Italians73
43232494571898 CESpanish-American War- Spain loses Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Phillipines74
43232494581899 CEBoer War- Dutch under British rule in South Africa75
43232494591905 CE*Russo-Japanese War and Einstein's theory of special relativity published76
43232494601910-1920*Mexican Revolution77
43232494611911*Chinese Revolution (End of Qing)78
43232494621914-1919*World War I and Treaty of Versailles79
43232494631917*Russian Revolution80
4323306714Treaty of Versaillesend of WW I81
43232494641929Stock Market Crash/ Great Depression82
43232494651931*Japanese invasion of Manchuria83
43232494661935Italian Invasion of Ethiopia84
43232494671939German Blitzkreig on Poland85
43232494681941Pearl Harbor86
43232494691943Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad87
43232494701945*End of World War II88
43232494711947*Freedom and partition of India89
43232494721948*Birth of Israel and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights90
43232494731949*Chinese Communist Revolution91
43232494741950-1953Korean War92
43232494751954Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu93
43232494761956*de-Stalinization/ Nationalization of Suez Canal94
43232494771957*Ghana is the first African Nation to gain independence95
43232494781959*Cuban Revolution and invention of silicon chip (beginning of the computer age)96
43233129981962Cuban missile crisis97
432324947919676 day war/ Chinese Cultural Revolution98
43232494801973Yom Kippur War99
43232494811979*Iranian Revolution100
432324948219871st Palestinian Intifada101
43232494831989*Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin Wall- Collapse of Communist regimes in Europe102
43232494841990Namibia is the last country to gain independence in Africa103
43232494851991*Fall of the USSR/ 1st Gulf War104
43232494861994Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in South Africa105
432324948720019/11 attacks/ War in Afghanistan106
43232494882007Great Global Recession begins107
43234378252018The year you started at iPrep Academy108
43233622462021The year you graduate from iPrep Academy109

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