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3195131628000 BCEBeginnings of agriculture0
3195131633000 BCEBeginnings of the Bronze Age1
3195131641300 BCEIron Age2
3195131656th century BCELife of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu3
3195131665th century BCEGreek Golden Age4
319513167323 BCEAlexander the Great5
319513168221 BCEQin unifies China6
31951316932 CEBeginnings of Christianity7
319513170180 CEEnd of Pax Romana8
319513171220 CEEnd of Han Dynasty9
319513172333Roman capital moved to Constantinople10
3195131734th centuryBeginnings of Trans-Saharan trade routes11
319513174476Fall of Rome12
319513175527Justinian rule of the Byzantine Empire13
319513176632Rise of Islam14
319513177732Battle of Tours (end Muslim move into France)15
3195131781054First schism of the Christian church16
3195131791066Norman conquest of England17
3195131801071Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire)18
3195131811095First Crusade19
3195131821215Signing of the Magna Carta in England20
3195131831258Mongols sack Baghdad21
3195131841271-1295Marco Polo's travels22
3195131851324Mansa Musa's pilgrimage23
3195131861325-1349Ibn Battuta's travels24
3195131871347-1348Bubonic plague in Europe25
3195131881433End of Zheng He's voyages Rise of the Ottomans26
3195131891453Ottomans capture Constantinople27
3195131901488Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope28
3195131911492Reconquista of Spain29
3195131921502Slaves to the Americas30
3195131931517Martin Luther - 95 Theses31
3195131941521Cortez conquers the Aztecs32
3195131951533Pizarro topples the Inca33
3195131961571Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of the Ottomans)34
3195131971588Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English35
3195131981600Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate)36
3195131991607Founding of Jamestown37
3195132001618-164830 Years' War38
3195132011683Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna39
3195132021689Glorious Revolution (English Bill of Rights)40
3195132031756-17637 Year's War (French and Indian War)41
3195132041776American Revolution Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'42
3195132051789French Revolution43
3195132061804Haitian independence44
3195132071815Congress of Vienna45
3195132081820'sIndependence in Latin America46
3195132091839First Opium War in China47
3195132101848European revolutions Marx and Engles' 'Communist Manifesto'48
3195132111853Commodore Perry opens Japan49
3195132121857Sepoy Mutiny50
3195132131861End of Russian serfdom Italian unification51
3195132141863Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.52
3195132151871German unification53
3195132161885Berlin Conference (division of Africa)54
3195132171898Spanish-American War (U.S. acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico)55
3195132181899Boer War (British controls South Africa)56
3195132191905Russo-Japanese War Decembrist Revolt in Russia57
3195132201910-1920Mexican Revolution58
3195132211911Chinese Revolution59
3805401851914World War I60
3805401861917Russian Revolution61
3805401871919Treaty of Versailles (end of World War I)62
3805401881929Stock Market Crash63
3805401891931Japanese invasion of Manchuria64
3805401901935Italian invasion of Ethiopia65
3805401911939German blitzkrieg in Poland66
3805401921941Pearl Harbor (entry of US into World War II)67
3805401931945End of World War II68
3805401941947Independence and partition of India69
3805401951948Birth of Israel70
3805401961949Chinese Communist Revolution71
3805401971950-1953Korean War72
3805401981954Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu73
3805401991956De-Stalinization Nationalization of Suez Canal74
3805402001959Cuban Revolution75
3805402011962Cuban Missile Crisis76
38054020219676-Day War Chinese Cultural Revolution77
3805402031973Yom Kippur War78
3805402041979Iranian Revolution79
3805402051987First Palestinian Intifada80
3805402061989Tiananmen Square Fall of the Berlin wall81
3805402071991Fall of the USSR First Gulf War82
3805402081994Genocide in Rwanda First all-race elections in South Africa83
38054020920019/11 Attacks84
3805402102003US declares war on Iraq March 19th Saddam Hussein captured December 14th85
380540211December 2007 - ForeverSindee loves Dayi <386

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