4370177044 | 8000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
4370177045 | 3000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of Bronze Age-early civ's | 1 | |
4370177046 | 1300 B.C.E. | Iron Age | 2 | |
4370177047 | 6th century B.C.E. | life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu(beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
4370177048 | 5th century B.C.E. | Greek Golden Age-philosophers | 4 | |
4370177049 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
4370177050 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin unified China | 6 | |
4370177051 | 32 C.E. | Beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
4370177052 | 180 C.E. | end of Pax Romana | 8 | |
4370177053 | 220 C.E. | end of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
4370177054 | 333 C.E. | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
4370177055 | 4th Century C.E. | Beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 11 | |
4370177056 | 476 C.E. | Fall of Rome | 12 | |
4370177057 | 527 C.E. | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
4370177058 | 622 | Founding of Islam | 14 | |
4370177059 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
4370177060 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) | 16 | |
4370177061 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
4370177062 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 18 | |
4370177063 | 1095 | 1st crusade | 19 | |
4370177064 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
4370177065 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
4370177066 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
4370177067 | 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
4370177068 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic Plague in Europe | 24 | |
4370177069 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
4370177070 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople- Change name to Istanbul | 26 | |
4370177071 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope- connecting Portuguese to Indian Ocean Trade | 27 | |
4370177072 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
4370177073 | 1502 | 1st slaves to Americas | 29 | |
4370177074 | 1517 | Martin Luther/95 theses- start of Protestant Reformation | 30 | |
4370177075 | 1521 | Cortez conquered Aztecs | 31 | |
4370177076 | 1533 | Pizzaro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
4370177077 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
4370177078 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British- opened up seas to exploration by Northern European nations (England, French, Dutch) | 34 | |
4370177079 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa period | 35 | |
4370177080 | 1607 | founding of Jamestown | 36 | |
4370177081 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war- Protestant vs. Catholic- ends with Treaty of Westphalia | 37 | |
4370177082 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
4370177083 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
4370177084 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian war | 40 | |
4370177085 | 1776 | American Revoluion/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
4370177086 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
4370177087 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 43 | |
4370177088 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
4370177089 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
4370177090 | 1839 | 1st Opium war in China | 46 | |
4370177091 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
4370177092 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
4370177093 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
4370177094 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 50 | |
4370177095 | 1863 | Emacipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
4370177096 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
4370177097 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
4370177098 | 1898 | Spanish-American war - US acquires Philipphines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
4370177099 | 1899 | Boer war - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
4370177100 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war- Japanese victory over Russians | 56 | |
4370177101 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
4370177102 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution- overthrow of last Chinese Emperor ( Qing Dynasty) | 58 | |
4370177103 | 1914 | WW1 | 59 | |
4370177104 | 1917 | Russian Revolution- start of Communism in Russia | 60 | |
4370177105 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WW1 | 61 | |
4370177106 | 1929 | stock market crash- worldwide depression | 62 | |
4370177107 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria in China- leads of "Rape of Nanking" | 63 | |
4370177108 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
4370177109 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
4370177110 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WW2 | 66 | |
4370177111 | 1945 | end of WW2 | 67 | |
4370177112 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 68 | |
4370177113 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 69 | |
4370177114 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
4370177115 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 71 | |
4370177116 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
4370177117 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 73 | |
4370177118 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
4370177119 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 75 | |
4370177120 | 1967 | 6 day war - Israel vs. Palestine/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
4370177122 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 77 | |
4370177123 | 1987 | 1st palestinian Intifada- PLO attempt at creating an independent Palestine | 78 | |
4370177124 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin wall | 79 | |
4370177125 | 1991 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 80 | |
4370177126 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa | 81 | |
4370177127 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 82 |
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