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66333113898000 BCENeolithic Revolution (beginning of agriculture)0
66333113903000 BCEBronze Age (early River Valley Civilizations)1
66333113916th Century BCEfoundation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism/Life of Confucius, Buddha, Laozi2
66333113925th Century BCEGreek Golden Age of Philosophers3
6633311393323 BCEAlexander the Great4
6633311394221 BCEQin Dynasty unified China5
663331139532 CEBeginning of Christianity6
6633311396180 CEend of Pax Romana7
6633311397220 CEend of Han Dynasty8
6633311398333 CEConstantinople new capital of Roman Empire9
66333113994th Century CETrans-Sahara trade routes established10
6633311400476 CEFall of Rome11
6633311401527 CEJustinian's reign of Byzantine Empire12
6633311402622 CEFounding of Islam13
6633311403732 CEBattle of Tours (to end Muslims pushing into France)14
66333114041054Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)15
66333114051066Norman Conquest of England16
66333219781071Battle of Manzikert(Seljuk Turks defeat BYZ)17
66333114061095First Crusade18
66333114071258Mongols sack Baghdad19
66333114081271-1295Marco Polo's Travels20
66333114091324Mansa Musa's pilgramage21
66333114101325-1349Ibn Battuta's travels22
66333114111347-1348Bubonic plague in Europe23
66333114121433end of Zheng He's voyage/Rise of Otttomans24
66333114131453Ottomans capture Constantinople25
66333114141488Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope26
66333114151492Columbus sails the ocean blue /Reconquista completed27
663331141615021st slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas28
66333114171517Martin Luther/ 95 theses29
66333114181521Cortez conquers the Aztecs30
66333114191533Pizarro conquers the Inca31
66333608351571Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans)32
66333114201588Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British33
66333114211600Beginning of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa34
66333114221607the foundation of Jamestown35
66333880231618-164830 years war36
66333895701683unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna37
66333114231689Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights38
66333114241750Industrial Revolution39
66333114251756-1763Seven Years' War/French and Indian War40
66333114261776American Revolution/Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations41
66333114271789French Revolution42
66333114281804Haitian Independence43
66333114291815Congress of Vienna44
66333114301820sIndependence of Latin America45
663331143118391st Opium War in China46
66333114321848European Revolutions/Karl Marx & Engels write "The Communist Manifesto"47
66333114331853Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade48
66333114341857Sepoy Mutiny49
66333114351861end of Russian serfdom/ Italian Unification50
66333114361863Emancipation Proclamation in the US51
66333114371885Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)52
66333114381898Spanish American War US acquires phillipines, Cuba, Guam, &pueto Rico53
66333114391899Boer War (British put down rebellion by Boers in eastern South Africa)54
66333114401905Russo-Japanese War55
66333114411910-1920Mexican Revolution56
66333114421911Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty)57
66333114431914WWI begins58
66333114441917Russian revolutions59
66333114451919Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI)60
66333114461929Stock Market crash61
66333114481931Japanese invasion of Manchuria62
66333114471935Italian invasion of Ethiopia63
66333114491939Germany blizkrieg in Poland (beginning WWII in Europe)64
66333114501941Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore / U.S. entry into WWII65
66333114511945WWII ends66
66333114521947India partitioned & independence from Britain67
66333114531948birth of Iserael68
66333114541949Chinese Communist Party takes control of China69
66333114551950-1953Korean War70
66334843341954Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu71
66333114561956De-Stalinization begins /Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt72
66333114571959Cuban Revolution73
66333114581962Cuban Missile Crisis74
663331145919676-Day War between Israel and Arab nations/C culture revolution75
66333114601973Yom Kippur War76
66333114611979Iranian Revolution77
663351219519871st Palestine Intifada78
66333114621989Tiananmen Square protests/Fall of Berlin Wall79
66333114631991Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War80
66335223511994genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all-race elections in S. Africa81

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