162626732 | beginnings of agriculture | 8000 BCE | 1 | |
162626733 | beginnings of Bronze Age | 3000 BCE | 2 | |
162626734 | Iron Age | 1300 BCE | 3 | |
162626735 | life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu | 500s BCE | 4 | |
162626736 | Greek Golden Age | 400s BCE | 5 | |
162626737 | Alexander the Great | 323 BCE | 6 | |
162626738 | Qin unified China | 221 BCE | 7 | |
162626739 | beginnings of Christianity | 32 CE | 8 | |
162626740 | end of Pax Romana | 180 CE | 9 | |
162626741 | end of Han Dynasty | 220 CE | 10 | |
162626742 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 333 | 11 | |
162626743 | beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 300s | 12 | |
162626744 | fall of Rome | 476 | 13 | |
162626745 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 527 | 14 | |
162626746 | founding of Islam | 622 | 15 | |
162626747 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 732 | 16 | |
162626748 | Great Schism | 1054 | 17 | |
162626749 | Norman conquest of England | 1066 | 18 | |
162626750 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuks defeat Byzantine Empire) | 1071 | 19 | |
162626751 | 1st Crusade | 1095 | 20 | |
162626752 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 1258 | 21 | |
162626753 | Marco Polo travels | 1271-1295 | 22 | |
162626754 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 1324 | 23 | |
162626755 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 1325-1349 | 24 | |
162626756 | bubonic plague in Europe | 1347-1348 | 25 | |
162626757 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of the Ottomans | 1433 | 26 | |
162626758 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 1453 | 27 | |
162626759 | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope | 1488 | 28 | |
162626760 | Columbus sailed/Reconquista of Spain | 1492 | 29 | |
162626761 | 1st slaves to Americas | 1502 | 30 | |
162626762 | Martin Luther/95 Theses | 1517 | 31 | |
162626763 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 1521 | 32 | |
162626764 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 1533 | 33 | |
162626765 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 1571 | 34 | |
162626766 | defeat of Spanish Armada by the British | 1588 | 35 | |
162626767 | Battle of Sekigahara/beginning of Tokugawa | 1600 | 36 | |
162626768 | foundation of Jamestown | 1607 | 37 | |
162626769 | 30 Year's War | 1618-1648 | 38 | |
162626770 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 1683 | 39 | |
162626771 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 1689 | 40 | |
162626772 | 7 Year's War/French and Indian War | 1756-1763 | 41 | |
162626773 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 1776 | 42 | |
162626774 | French Revolution | 1789 | 43 | |
162626775 | Haitian independence | 1804 | 44 | |
162626776 | Congress of Vienna | 1815 | 45 | |
162626777 | independence in Latin America | 1820s | 46 | |
162626778 | Opium War in China | 1839 | 47 | |
162626779 | European revolutions/Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto | 1848 | 48 | |
162626780 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 1853 | 49 | |
162626781 | Sepoy Mutiny | 1857 | 50 | |
162626782 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 1861 | 51 | |
162626783 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 1863 | 52 | |
162626784 | German unification | 1871 | 53 | |
162626785 | Berlin Conference/division of Africa | 1885 | 54 | |
162626786 | Spanish-American War | 1898 | 55 | |
162626787 | Boer War | 1899 | 56 | |
162626788 | Russo-Japanese War | 1905 | 57 | |
162626789 | Mexican Revolution | 1910-1920 | 58 | |
162626790 | Chinese Revolution | 1911 | 59 | |
162626791 | World War I | 1914-1918 | 60 | |
162626792 | Russian Revolution | 1917 | 61 | |
162626793 | Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | 62 | |
162626794 | stock market crash | 1929 | 63 | |
162626795 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 1931 | 64 | |
162626796 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 1935 | 65 | |
162626797 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 1939 | 66 | |
162626798 | Pearl Harbor | 1941 | 67 | |
162626799 | end of World War II | 1945 | 68 | |
162626800 | independence and partition of India | 1947 | 69 | |
162626801 | birth of Israel | 1948 | 70 | |
162626802 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 1949 | 71 | |
162626803 | Korean War | 1950-1953 | 72 | |
162626804 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 1954 | 73 | |
162626805 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 1956 | 74 | |
162626806 | Cuban Revolution | 1959 | 75 | |
162626807 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 | 76 | |
162626808 | 6 Day War/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 1967 | 77 | |
162626809 | Yom Kippur War | 1973 | 78 | |
162626810 | Iranian Revolution | 1979 | 79 | |
162626811 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 1987 | 80 | |
162626812 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | 1989 | 81 | |
162626813 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 1991 | 82 | |
162626814 | genocide in Rwanda/all race election in S. Africa | 1994 | 83 | |
162626815 | 9/11 attacks | 2001 | 84 |
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