4430620780 | Beginnings of agriculture | 8000 bce | 0 | |
4430620781 | beginnings of bronze age- early civilizations | 3000 bce | 1 | |
4430620782 | Iron age | 1300 bce | 2 | |
4430620783 | life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu; beginnings of Confucianism, buddhism and Taoism | 6th century bce | 3 | |
4430620784 | Greek Golden Age- philosophers | 5th century bce | 4 | |
4430620785 | Alexander the Great | 323 bce | 5 | |
4430620786 | Qin unified China | 221 bce | 6 | |
4430620787 | Beginnings of Christianity | 32 | 7 | |
4430620788 | end of Pax Romana | 180 | 8 | |
4430620789 | end of Han Dynasty | 220 | 9 | |
4430620790 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 333 | 10 | |
4430620791 | Beginning of Trans-Saharan trade routes | 4th century (300s) | 11 | |
4430620792 | Fall of Rome | 476 | 12 | |
4430620793 | Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire | 527 | 13 | |
4430620794 | Founding of Islam | 622 | 14 | |
4430620795 | Battle of Tours | 732 | 15 | |
4430620796 | Great Schism of Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) | 1054 | 16 | |
4430620797 | Norman conquest of England (William the Conqueror) | 1066 | 17 | |
4430620798 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines) | 1071 | 18 | |
4430620799 | 1st crusade | 1095 | 19 | |
4430620800 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 1258 | 20 | |
4430620801 | Marco Polos travels | 1271-1295 | 21 | |
4430620802 | Mansa Musa pilgrimage | 1324 | 22 | |
4430620803 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 1325-1349 | 23 | |
4430620804 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 1347-1348 | 24 | |
4430620805 | end of Zheng He's voyages/ Rise of the Ottomans | 1433 | 25 | |
4430620806 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 1453 | 26 | |
4430620807 | Dias rounded Cape of good Hope | 1488 | 27 | |
4430620808 | Columbus sailed the Ocean blue/ reconquista of Spain | 1492 | 28 | |
4430620809 | 1st slaves to America | 1502 | 29 | |
4430620810 | Martin Luther/ 95 theses | 1517 | 30 | |
4430620811 | Cortez conquers Aztecs | 1521 | 31 | |
4430620812 | Pizarro topples Inca | 1533 | 32 | |
4430620813 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 1571 | 33 | |
4430620814 | Defeat of Spanish Armada by British | 1588 | 34 | |
4430620815 | Battle of Sekigahara- Beginning of Tokugawa | 1600 | 35 | |
4430620816 | foundation of Jamestown | 1607 | 36 | |
4430620817 | 30 years war | 1618- 1648 | 37 | |
4430620818 | unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna | 1683 | 38 | |
4430620819 | Glorious revolution/ English Bill of Rights | 1689 | 39 | |
4430620820 | Industrial Revolution | 1750 | 40 | |
4430620821 | 7 years war (french and Indian War) | 1756-1763 | 41 | |
4430620822 | American Revolution/ Smith writes wealth of nations | 1776 | 42 | |
4430620823 | French Revolution | 1789 | 43 | |
4430620824 | Haitian Independence | 1804 | 44 | |
4430620825 | Congress of Vienna | 1815 | 45 | |
4430620826 | Independence in Latin America | 1820s | 46 | |
4430620827 | 1st Opium War in China | 1839 | 47 | |
4430620828 | European revolution/ Mark and Engles write Communist Manifesto | 1848 | 48 | |
4430620829 | Commodore Perry opens up Japan | 1853 | 49 | |
4430620830 | Sepoy Mutiny (India) | 1857 | 50 | |
4430620831 | end of Russian serfdom/ Italian unifications | 1861 | 51 | |
4430620832 | Emancipation Proclimation | 1863 | 52 | |
4430620833 | German unification | 1871 | 53 | |
4430620834 | Berlin Conference (division of Africa) | 1885 | 54 | |
4430620835 | Spanish-American War- US acquires Phillipines, Cuba, Guam and Puerto Rico | 1898 | 55 | |
4430620836 | Boer War- British control in South Africa | 1899 | 56 | |
4430620837 | Russo-Japanese War | 1905 | 57 | |
4430620838 | Mexican revolution | 1910-1920 | 58 | |
4430620839 | Chinese Revolution | 1911 | 59 | |
4430620840 | WW1 | 1914 | 60 | |
4430620841 | Russian Revolution | 1917 | 61 | |
4430620842 | Treaty of Versailles- end of ww1 | 1919 | 62 | |
4430620843 | Stock Market crash | 1929 | 63 | |
4430620844 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 1931 | 64 | |
4430620845 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 1935 | 65 | |
4430620846 | German blitzkreig in Poland | 1939 | 66 | |
4430620847 | Pearl Harbor- US into ww2 | 1941 | 67 | |
4430620848 | end of WW2 | 1945 | 68 | |
4430620849 | Independence and partition of India | 1947 | 69 | |
4430620850 | birth of Israel | 1948 | 70 | |
4430620851 | Chinese Communist revolution | 1949 | 71 | |
4430620852 | Korean War | 1950-1953 | 72 | |
4430620853 | Vietnamese defeat of French at Dien Bien Phu | 1954 | 73 | |
4430620854 | de-stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 1956 | 74 | |
4430620855 | Cuban Revolution | 1959 | 75 | |
4430620856 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 | 76 | |
4430620857 | 6-day war/ Chinese Cultural revolution | 1967 | 77 | |
4430620858 | Yom Kippur War | 1973 | 78 | |
4430620859 | Iranian revolution | 1979 | 79 | |
4430620860 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 1987 | 80 | |
4430620861 | Tiananmen square/ fall of Berlin Wall | 1989 | 81 | |
4430620862 | fall of USSR/ first Gulf War | 1991 | 82 | |
4430620863 | genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in South Africa | 1994 | 83 | |
4430620864 | 9/11 attacks | 2001 | 84 |
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