6633311389 | 8000 BCE | Neolithic Revolution (beginning of agriculture) | ![]() | 0 |
6633311390 | 3000 BCE | Bronze Age (early River Valley Civilizations) | ![]() | 1 |
6633311391 | 6th Century BCE | foundation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism/Life of Confucius, Buddha, Laozi | ![]() | 2 |
6633311392 | 5th Century BCE | Greek Golden Age of Philosophers | ![]() | 3 |
6633311393 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | ![]() | 4 |
6633311394 | 221 BCE | Qin Dynasty unified China | ![]() | 5 |
6633311395 | 32 CE | Beginning of Christianity | ![]() | 6 |
6633311396 | 180 CE | end of Pax Romana | ![]() | 7 |
6633311397 | 220 CE | end of Han Dynasty | ![]() | 8 |
6633311398 | 333 CE | Constantinople new capital of Roman Empire | ![]() | 9 |
6633311399 | 4th Century CE | Trans-Sahara trade routes established | ![]() | 10 |
6633311400 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome | ![]() | 11 |
6633311401 | 527 CE | Justinian's reign of Byzantine Empire | ![]() | 12 |
6633311402 | 622 CE | Founding of Islam | ![]() | 13 |
6633311403 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours (to end Muslims pushing into France) | ![]() | 14 |
6633311404 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) | ![]() | 15 |
6633311405 | 1066 | Norman Conquest of England | ![]() | 16 |
6633321978 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert(Seljuk Turks defeat BYZ) | ![]() | 17 |
6633311406 | 1095 | First Crusade | ![]() | 18 |
6633311407 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | ![]() | 19 |
6633311408 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's Travels | ![]() | 20 |
6633311409 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgramage | ![]() | 21 |
6633311410 | 1325-1349 | Ibn Battuta's travels | ![]() | 22 |
6633311411 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | ![]() | 23 |
6633311412 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyage/Rise of Otttomans | ![]() | 24 |
6633311413 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | ![]() | 25 |
6633311414 | 1488 | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope | ![]() | 26 |
6633311415 | 1492 | Columbus sails the ocean blue /Reconquista completed | ![]() | 27 |
6633311416 | 1502 | 1st slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas | ![]() | 28 |
6633311417 | 1517 | Martin Luther/ 95 theses | ![]() | 29 |
6633311418 | 1521 | Cortez conquers the Aztecs | ![]() | 30 |
6633311419 | 1533 | Pizarro conquers the Inca | ![]() | 31 |
6633360835 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) | ![]() | 32 |
6633311420 | 1588 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | ![]() | 33 |
6633311421 | 1600 | Beginning of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | ![]() | 34 |
6633311422 | 1607 | the foundation of Jamestown | ![]() | 35 |
6633388023 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | ![]() | 36 |
6633389570 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | ![]() | 37 |
6633311423 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | ![]() | 38 |
6633311424 | 1750 | Industrial Revolution | ![]() | 39 |
6633311425 | 1756-1763 | Seven Years' War/French and Indian War | ![]() | 40 |
6633311426 | 1776 | American Revolution/Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations | ![]() | 41 |
6633311427 | 1789 | French Revolution | ![]() | 42 |
6633311428 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | ![]() | 43 |
6633311429 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | ![]() | 44 |
6633311430 | 1820s | Independence of Latin America | ![]() | 45 |
6633311431 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | ![]() | 46 |
6633311432 | 1848 | European Revolutions/Karl Marx & Engels write "The Communist Manifesto" | ![]() | 47 |
6633311433 | 1853 | Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade | ![]() | 48 |
6633311434 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | ![]() | 49 |
6633311435 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/ Italian Unification | ![]() | 50 |
6633311436 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in the US | ![]() | 51 |
6633311437 | 1885 | Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa) | ![]() | 52 |
6633311438 | 1898 | Spanish American War US acquires phillipines, Cuba, Guam, &pueto Rico | ![]() | 53 |
6633311439 | 1899 | Boer War (British put down rebellion by Boers in eastern South Africa) | ![]() | 54 |
6633311440 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | ![]() | 55 |
6633311441 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | ![]() | 56 |
6633311442 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty) | ![]() | 57 |
6633311443 | 1914 | WWI begins | ![]() | 58 |
6633311444 | 1917 | Russian revolutions | ![]() | 59 |
6633311445 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI) | ![]() | 60 |
6633311446 | 1929 | Stock Market crash | ![]() | 61 |
6633311448 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | ![]() | 62 |
6633311447 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 63 | |
6633311449 | 1939 | Germany blizkrieg in Poland (beginning WWII in Europe) | ![]() | 64 |
6633311450 | 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore / U.S. entry into WWII | ![]() | 65 |
6633311451 | 1945 | WWII ends | ![]() | 66 |
6633311452 | 1947 | India partitioned & independence from Britain | ![]() | 67 |
6633311453 | 1948 | birth of Iserael | ![]() | 68 |
6633311454 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Party takes control of China | ![]() | 69 |
6633311455 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | ![]() | 70 |
6633484334 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | ![]() | 71 |
6633311456 | 1956 | De-Stalinization begins /Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt | ![]() | 72 |
6633311457 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | ![]() | 73 |
6633311458 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | ![]() | 74 |
6633311459 | 1967 | 6-Day War between Israel and Arab nations/C culture revolution | ![]() | 75 |
6633311460 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | ![]() | 76 |
6633311461 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | ![]() | 77 |
6633512195 | 1987 | 1st Palestine Intifada | ![]() | 78 |
6633311462 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square protests/Fall of Berlin Wall | ![]() | 79 |
6633311463 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War | ![]() | 80 |
6633522351 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all-race elections in S. Africa | ![]() | 81 |
AP World History Rhinehart All periods Flashcards
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