According to anonymous sources, the starred dates are the ones most likely to show up on the AP World History Exam.
4323249384 | 8000 BCE* | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
4323249385 | 3500 BCE | Invention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia) and sail (Egypt) | 1 | |
4323249386 | 3200 BCE | Invention of writing in Mesopotamia | 2 | |
4323249387 | 3000 BCE* | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's | 3 | |
4323249388 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 4 | |
4323249389 | 6th Century BCE* | Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Greek Golden Age | 5 | |
4323249390 | 323 BCE* | Alexander the Great | 6 | |
4323249391 | 221 BCE* | Qin unified China (end of period of warring states) | 7 | |
4323249392 | 184 BCE* | Fall of the Mauryan Dynasty | 8 | |
4323249393 | 32 CE * | Beginnings of Christianity | 9 | |
4323249394 | 180 CE | end of Pax Romana | 10 | |
4323249395 | 220 CE * | end of Han Dynasty | 11 | |
4323249396 | 312 CE | Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 12 | |
4323249397 | 320 CE | Rise of the Gupta in India | 13 | |
4323249398 | 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 14 | |
4323286279 | 4th Century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 15 | |
4323249399 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome in the West ends 800 years of Roman Hegemony | 16 | |
4323249400 | 527 CE | Justinian rules Byzantine Empire | 17 | |
4323249401 | 550 CE | Fall of the Gupta in India | 18 | |
4323249402 | 632 CE * | Rise of Islam | 19 | |
4323249403 | 730 CE | Printing invented in China | 20 | |
4323249404 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move to France) | 21 | |
4323249405 | 900 CE | Decline of classical Maya | 22 | |
4323249406 | 1054 CE | Schism of Greek and Latin Christian Churches divides Christianity permanently into two geographical and denominational halves | 23 | |
4323249407 | 1066 CE | Norman Conquest of England (William the Conqueror, the song) | 24 | |
4323249408 | 1095 CE | 1st Crusade | 25 | |
4323249409 | 1206 CE * | Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia | 26 | |
4323249410 | 1215 CE | Magna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede: Beginning of constitutional rule | 27 | |
4323249411 | 1258 CE | Mongols conquer Baghdad | 28 | |
4323249412 | 1271-1295 CE | Marco Polo travels | 29 | |
4323249413 | 1300s | Rise of the Ottomans | 30 | |
4323249414 | 1324 CE | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 31 | |
4323249415 | 1325- 1349 CE | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 32 | |
4323249416 | 1347- 1348 CE | Bubonic Plague in Europe | 33 | |
4323249417 | 1433 CE | End of Zheng He's voyages | 34 | |
4323249418 | 1438 CE | Rise of the Incas | 35 | |
4323249419 | 1453 CE* | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 36 | |
4323249420 | 1486 CE | Aztec Empire at it's height | 37 | |
4323249421 | 1488 CE | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 38 | |
4323249422 | 1492 CE* | Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/ Reconquista of Spain | 39 | |
4323249423 | 1502 CE* | First African slaves transported to Caribbean | 40 | |
4323249424 | 1517 CE | Martin Luther (95 Theses, Protestant Reformation) | 41 | |
4323249425 | 1521 CE | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 42 | |
4323249426 | 1533 CE | Pizarro conquered Incas | 43 | |
4323249427 | 1545 CE* | Silver discovered at Potosi | 44 | |
4323249428 | 1571 CE | Battle of Lepanto- naval defeat of Ottomans | 45 | |
4323249429 | 1588 CE | Defeat of the Spanish Armada | 46 | |
4323249430 | 1600 CE* | beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate | 47 | |
4323249431 | 1607 CE | Founding of Jamestown (first slaves there in 1619) | 48 | |
4323249432 | 1618-1648 CE | 30 years war in Europe | 49 | |
4323249433 | 1644 CE | End of Ming Dynasty- rise of the Qing | 50 | |
4323249434 | 1652 CE | Establishment of Cape Town Colony | 51 | |
4323249435 | 1683 CE | Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 52 | |
4323249436 | 1689 CE | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights | 53 | |
4323249437 | 1756-1763 CE | 7 years war/ French and Indian War | 54 | |
4323249438 | 1760 CE | About when the Industrial Revolution begins (steam locomotives, textiles, etc) | 55 | |
4323249439 | 1767 CE | Invention of the Spinning Jenny: man-using machines | 56 | |
4323249440 | 1776 CE | The American Declaration of Independence | 57 | |
4323249441 | 1789 CE | French 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 | |
4323249442 | 1796 CE | Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination: the first real breakthrough in combating infectious diseases | 59 | |
4323249443 | 1804 CE* | Haitian Independence | 60 | |
4323249444 | 1807 CE | British abolition of the slave trade | 61 | |
4323249445 | 1810-1825 CE | Latin American independence (first Mexican Revolution) | 62 | |
4323249446 | 1815 CE | Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna (after Battle of Waterloo: The Napoleonic Empire ends) | 63 | |
4323249447 | 1839 CE | 1st Opium War between China and England | 64 | |
4323249448 | 1848 CE | European Revolutions/ Marx and Engels write "Communist Manifesto"/ The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference | 65 | |
4323249449 | 1853 CE | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 66 | |
4323249450 | 1857 CE* | Sepoy Mutiny in India | 67 | |
4323249451 | 1861 CE* | End of Russian serfdom by Alexander II/ Italian unification | 68 | |
4323249452 | 1863 CE | "Emancipation Proclamation" issued in US | 69 | |
4323249453 | 1871 CE | German unification | 70 | |
4323249454 | 1885 CE | Berlin Conference/Benz develops first petrol-driven car | 71 | |
4323249455 | 1893 CE | New Zealand first to give women suffrage (other nations in the Commonwealth soon follow) | 72 | |
4323249456 | 1896 CE | Battle of Adwa. Ethiopians fend of Italians | 73 | |
4323249457 | 1898 CE | Spanish-American War- Spain loses Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Phillipines | 74 | |
4323249458 | 1899 CE | Boer War- Dutch under British rule in South Africa | 75 | |
4323249459 | 1905 CE* | Russo-Japanese War and Einstein's theory of special relativity published | 76 | |
4323249460 | 1910-1920* | Mexican Revolution | 77 | |
4323249461 | 1911* | Chinese Revolution (End of Qing) | 78 | |
4323249462 | 1914-1919* | World War I and Treaty of Versailles | 79 | |
4323249463 | 1917* | Russian Revolution | 80 | |
4323306714 | Treaty of Versailles | end of WW I | 81 | |
4323249464 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash/ Great Depression | 82 | |
4323249465 | 1931* | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 83 | |
4323249466 | 1935 | Italian Invasion of Ethiopia | 84 | |
4323249467 | 1939 | German Blitzkreig on Poland | 85 | |
4323249468 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor | 86 | |
4323249469 | 1943 | Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad | 87 | |
4323249470 | 1945* | End of World War II | 88 | |
4323249471 | 1947* | Freedom and partition of India | 89 | |
4323249472 | 1948* | Birth of Israel and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 90 | |
4323249473 | 1949* | Chinese Communist Revolution | 91 | |
4323249474 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 92 | |
4323249475 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 93 | |
4323249476 | 1956* | de-Stalinization/ Nationalization of Suez Canal | 94 | |
4323249477 | 1957* | Ghana is the first African Nation to gain independence | 95 | |
4323249478 | 1959* | Cuban Revolution and invention of silicon chip (beginning of the computer age) | 96 | |
4323312998 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 97 | |
4323249479 | 1967 | 6 day war/ Chinese Cultural Revolution | 98 | |
4323249480 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 99 | |
4323249481 | 1979* | Iranian Revolution | 100 | |
4323249482 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 101 | |
4323249483 | 1989* | Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin Wall- Collapse of Communist regimes in Europe | 102 | |
4323249484 | 1990 | Namibia is the last country to gain independence in Africa | 103 | |
4323249485 | 1991* | Fall of the USSR/ 1st Gulf War | 104 | |
4323249486 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in South Africa | 105 | |
4323249487 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks/ War in Afghanistan | 106 | |
4323249488 | 2007 | Great Global Recession begins | 107 | |
4323437825 | 2018 | The year you started at iPrep Academy | 108 | |
4323362246 | 2021 | The year you graduate from iPrep Academy | 109 |