9966001851 | Beginnings of agriculture | 8000 BCE | 0 | |
9966001852 | Beginning of Bronze Age (early civilization) | 3000 BCE | 1 | |
9966001853 | Hammurabi's Code | 18th Century BCE | 2 | |
9966001854 | cuneiform/hieroglyphics | 3000 BCE | 3 | |
9966001855 | Egyptian Empire | 2500-30 BCE | 4 | |
9966001856 | Hinduism starts | 1700 BCE | 5 | |
9966001857 | Early alphabetic script | 1500 BCE | 6 | |
9966001858 | Iron Age | 1300 BCE | 7 | |
9966001859 | Assyrian Empire | 10th-7th Century BCE | 8 | |
9966001860 | Hinduism takes over India | 900 BCE | 9 | |
9966001861 | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 6th century BCE | 10 | |
9966001862 | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 5th century BCE | 11 | |
9966001863 | Alexander the Great | 323 BCE | 12 | |
9966001864 | Qin unified China | 221 BCE | 13 | |
9966001865 | Silk Road emerges | 200s BCE | 14 | |
9966001866 | Julius Caesar dictator | 46-44 BCE | 15 | |
9966001867 | Beginnings of Christianity | 32 CE | 16 | |
9966001868 | End of Pax Romana | 180 CE | 17 | |
9966001869 | End of Han Dynasty | 220 CE | 18 | |
9966001870 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 333 | 19 | |
9966001871 | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 4th Century | 20 | |
9966001872 | Fall of Rome | 476 | 21 | |
9966001873 | Start of Middle Ages | 476 | 22 | |
9966001874 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 527 | 23 | |
9966001875 | Rise of Islam | 632 | 24 | |
9966001876 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 732 | 25 | |
9966001877 | 1st Schism (Great Schism) in the Christian Church | 1054 | 26 | |
9966001878 | Norman conquest of England | 1066 | 27 | |
9966001879 | Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire | 1071 | 28 | |
9966001880 | First Crusade | 1095 | 29 | |
9966001881 | Manga Carta (limits king's power) | 1215 | 30 | |
9966001882 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 1258 | 31 | |
9966001883 | Marco Polo's travels | 1271-1295 | 32 | |
9966001884 | Renaissance | 1300-1600 | 33 | |
9966001885 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 1324 | 34 | |
9966001886 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 1325-1349 | 35 | |
9966001887 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 1347-1348 | 36 | |
9966001888 | Silk Road not as vital due to maritime trade | 1400s | 37 | |
9966001889 | Rise of the Ottomans | 1433 | 38 | |
9966001890 | Gutenberg Press | 1437 | 39 | |
9966001891 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 1453 | 40 | |
9966001892 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 1488 | 41 | |
9966001893 | End of the Middle Ages | 1492 | 42 | |
9966001894 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain | 1492 | 43 | |
9966001895 | Slaves to Americas | 1502 | 44 | |
9966001896 | Martin Luther/95 theses | 1517 | 45 | |
9966001897 | Cortes conquered the Aztecs | 1521 | 46 | |
9966001898 | Pizzaro conquered the Incas | 1533 | 47 | |
9966001899 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 1588 | 48 | |
9966001900 | Beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate | 1600 | 49 | |
9966001901 | Foundation of Jamestown | 1607 | 50 | |
9966001902 | 30 years war | 1618-1648 | 51 | |
9966001903 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 1689 | 52 | |
9966001904 | 7 Years War/French and Indian War | 1756-1763 CE | 53 | |
9966001905 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 1776 | 54 | |
9966001906 | French Revolution | 1789 | 55 | |
9966001907 | Haitian Independence | 1804 | 56 | |
9966001908 | Congress of Vienna | 1814-1815 | 57 | |
9966001909 | Independence in Latin America | 1820's | 58 | |
9966001910 | 1st Opium War in China | 1839 | 59 | |
9966001911 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 1848 | 60 | |
9966001912 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 1853 | 61 | |
9966001913 | End of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 1861 | 62 | |
9966001914 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 1863 | 63 | |
9966001915 | German Unification | 1871 | 64 | |
9966001916 | Berlin Conference-Division of Africa | 1885 | 65 | |
9966001917 | Spanish American War-US acquires Philippines, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 1898 | 66 | |
9966001918 | Boer War- British in control of South Africa | 1899 | 67 | |
9966001919 | Russo-Japanese War | 1905 | 68 | |
9966001920 | Mexican Revolution | 1910-1920 | 69 | |
9966001921 | Chinese Revolution | 1911 | 70 | |
9966001922 | World War I | 1914 | 71 | |
9966001923 | Russian Revolution | 1917 | 72 | |
9966001924 | Treaty of Versailles-end of WWI | 1919 | 73 | |
9966001925 | Stock Market Crash | 1929 | 74 | |
9966001926 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 1931 | 75 | |
9966001927 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 1935 | 76 | |
9966001928 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 1939 | 77 | |
9966001929 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 1941 | 78 | |
9966001930 | End of WWII | 1945 | 79 | |
9966001931 | Independence and partition of India | 1947 | 80 | |
9966001932 | Birth of Israel | 1948 | 81 | |
9966001933 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 1949 | 82 | |
9966001934 | Korean War | 1950-1953 | 83 | |
9966001935 | Vietnamese defeat French | 1954 | 84 | |
9966001936 | De-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 1956 | 85 | |
9966001937 | Cuban Revolution | 1959 | 86 | |
9966001938 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 | 87 | |
9966001939 | 6-Day War/ Chinese Cultural Revolution | 1967 | 88 | |
9966001940 | Yom Kippur War | 1973 | 89 | |
9966001941 | Iranian Revolution | 1979 | 90 | |
9966001942 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 1987 | 91 | |
9966001943 | Tiananmen Square/Fall of Berlin Wall | 1989 | 92 | |
9966001944 | Apartheid ends | 1991 | 93 | |
9966001945 | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 1991 | 94 | |
9966001946 | Genocide in Rwanda/1st all-race elections in South America | 1994 | 95 | |
9966001947 | 9/11 Attacks | 2001 | 96 |
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