6587040201 | The American Revolution begins | 1775 | 0 | |
6587044677 | Discovery of the "New World" | 1492 | 1 | |
6587047164 | End of Zheng He's voyages | 1433 | 2 | |
6587049321 | Fall of the Byzantine Empire | 1453 | 3 | |
6587052950 | Fall of the Western Roman Empire | 476 | 4 | |
6587054896 | Split of the Christian Church | 1054 | 5 | |
6587065272 | Rise of Islam | 610 | 6 | |
6587066732 | Start of World War I | 1914 | 7 | |
6587087027 | Beginning of agriculture | c. 8000 BCE | 8 | |
6587091685 | invention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia), and sail (Egypt) | c. 3500 BCE | 9 | |
6587094343 | invention of writing in Mesopotamia | c. 3200 BCE | 10 | |
6587099057 | Qin unified China | 221 BCE | 11 | |
6587100920 | Fall of the Mauryan dynasty | 184 BCE | 12 | |
6587102564 | Beginnings of Christianity | 32 CE | 13 | |
6587104984 | end of Pax Romana | 180 CE | 14 | |
6587106519 | end of Han Dynasty | 220 CE | 15 | |
6587108890 | Rise of the Gupta in India | 320 CE | 16 | |
6587112545 | Printing invented in China | 730 | 17 | |
6587112546 | Battle of Tours | 732 | 18 | |
6587116066 | decline of classical Maya | c. 900 | 19 | |
6587119267 | Norman conquest of England | 1066 | 20 | |
6587123057 | Seljuk defeat of Byzantines (Battle of Manzikert) | 1071 | 21 | |
6587124482 | First Crusades | 1095 | 22 | |
6587128153 | Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia | 1206 | 23 | |
6587130117 | Magna Carta signed | 1215 | 24 | |
6587135664 | Rise of the Inca | 1438 | 25 | |
6587138824 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 1453 | 26 | |
6587140737 | Aztec Empire at its height | 1486 | 27 | |
6587142830 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 1488 | 28 | |
6587145878 | first enslaved Africans transported to the Caribbean | 1502 | 29 | |
6587149747 | Martin Luther/95 theses - beginning of Protestant Reformation | 1517 | 30 | |
6587159009 | Thirty Years' War | 1618 - 1648 | 31 | |
6587162349 | End of the Ming dynasty - rise of the Qing | 1644 | 32 | |
6587165649 | Establishment of Cape Town Colony (South Africa) | 1652 | 33 | |
6587168556 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 1689 | 34 | |
6587172559 | French and Indian War aka Seven Years War | 1756 - 1763 | 35 | |
6587176534 | French Revolution | 1789 | 36 | |
6587180341 | Jenner's smallpox vaccination | 1796 | 37 | |
6587181973 | Haitian Revolution | 1804 | 38 | |
6587184808 | British abolition of the slave trade | 1807 | 39 | |
6587189224 | Latin American independence movements (first Mexican revolution) | 1810 - 1825 | 40 | |
6587193597 | Sepoy Mutiny in India | 1857 | 41 | |
6587196702 | end of serfdom in Russia | 1861 | 42 | |
6587198817 | Emancipation Proclamation issued in the US | 1863 | 43 | |
6587198818 | German unification | 1871 | 44 | |
6587200104 | Berlin Conference | 1885 | 45 | |
6587206338 | New Zealand is the first to grant women suffrage | 1893 | 46 | |
6587209106 | Battle of Adwa - Ethiopians fend of Italians | 1896 | 47 | |
6587211035 | Spanish-American War | 1898 | 48 | |
6587212795 | Boer War (South Africa) | 1899 | 49 | |
6587214582 | Russo-Japanese war and Einstein's theory of relativity published | 1905 | 50 | |
6587219889 | Mexican Revolution/Chinese Revolution | 1910 | 51 | |
6587224480 | Treat of Versailles | 1919 | 52 | |
6587224481 | Russian Revolution | 1917 | 53 | |
6587226749 | Great Depression | 1929 | 54 | |
6587231131 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 1931 | 55 | |
6587232526 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 1935 | 56 | |
6587234070 | Pearl Harbor | 1941 | 57 | |
6587237688 | end of World War II | 1945 | 58 | |
6587241708 | freedom and partition of India | 1947 | 59 | |
6587243963 | establishment of the state of Israel | 1948 | 60 | |
6587243996 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 1949 | 61 | |
6587245510 | Korean War | 1950 - 1953 | 62 | |
6587249828 | Ghana is first African nation to gain independence | 1957 | 63 | |
6587252548 | Cuban Revolution | 1959 | 64 | |
6587254268 | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 1967 | 65 | |
6587254269 | Iranian Revolution | 1979 | 66 | |
6587258082 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin War | 1989 | 67 | |
6587260932 | Namibia is the last country gain independence in Africa | 1990 | 68 | |
6587262929 | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf Wat | 1991 | 69 |
AP World History - Must Know Dates Flashcards
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