Notable dates from unit five, from 1730-1918.
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| 162391701 | 1730-1850 | Population boom in Western Europe (duration) | 0 | |
| 162391702 | 1770 | James Watt's steam engine; beginning of Industrial Revolution (year) | 1 | |
| 162391703 | 1776-1783 | American Revolution (duration) | 2 | |
| 162391704 | 1786-1790 | First British reforms in India (duration) | 3 | |
| 162391705 | 1788 | Australian colonization begins (year) | 4 | |
| 162391706 | 1789-1815 | French Revolution and Napoleon (duration) | 5 | |
| 162391707 | 1798 | Napoleon's invasion of Egypt (year) | 6 | |
| 162391708 | 1805-1849 | Muhammad Ali rules Egypt (duration) | 7 | |
| 162391709 | 1808-1825 | Latin American wars of Independence (duration) | 8 | |
| 162391710 | 1815 | Vienna settlement (year) | 9 | |
| 162391711 | 1815 | British annexation of Cape Town and region of southern Africa (year) | 10 | |
| 162391712 | 1822 | Brazil declares independence (year) | 11 | |
| 162391713 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine (year) | 12 | |
| 162391714 | 1825-1855 | Repression in Russia (duration) | 13 | |
| 162391715 | 1826 | New Zealand colonization begins (year) | 14 | |
| 162391716 | 1830, 1848 | Revolutions in Europe (two years) | 15 | |
| 162391717 | 1835 | English education in India (year) | 16 | |
| 162391718 | 1838 | Ottoman trade treaty with Britain (year) | 17 | |
| 162391719 | 1839-1841 | Opium War between England and China (duration) | 18 | |
| 162391720 | 1839-1876 | Reforms in Ottoman Empire (duration) | 19 | |
| 162391721 | 1840 | Semiautonomous government in Canada (year) | 20 | |
| 162391722 | 1846-1848 | Mexican-American War (duration) | 21 | |
| 162391723 | 1848 | Beginnings of Marxism (year) | 22 | |
| 162391724 | 1850-1864 | Taiping rebellion in China (duration) | 23 | |
| 162391725 | 1853 | Perry expedition to Edo Bay in Japan (year) | 24 | |
| 162391726 | 1854-1856 | Crimean War (duration) | 25 | |
| 162391727 | 1867 | Union of central and eastern Canada (year) | 26 | |
| 162391728 | 1858 | British parliament assumes control over India (year) | 27 | |
| 162391729 | 1860-1868 | Civil strife in Japan (duration) | 28 | |
| 162391730 | 1861 | Emancipation of serfs in Russia; reform era begins (year) | 29 | |
| 162391731 | 1861-1865 | American Civil War (duration) | 30 | |
| 162391732 | 1863 | Emancipation of slaves in United States (year) | 31 | |
| 162391733 | 1864-1871 | German unification (duration) | 32 | |
| 162391734 | 1868-1912 | Meiji (reform) era in Japan (duration) | 33 | |
| 162391735 | 1870 | Establishment of Japanese Ministry of Industry (year) | 34 | |
| 162391736 | 1870-1910 | Acceleration of "demographic transition" in Western Europe and the United States (duration) | 35 | |
| 162391737 | 1870-1910 | Expansion of commercial export economy in Latin America (duration) | 36 | |
| 162391738 | 1871-1912 | High point of European imperialism (duration) | 37 | |
| 162391739 | 1877-1878 | Ottomans out of most of Balkans; Treaty of San Stefana (duration) | 38 | |
| 162391740 | 1879-1890s | Partition of west Africa (year-decade) | 39 | |
| 162391741 | 1882 | British takeover of Egypt (year) | 40 | |
| 162391742 | 1884-1914 | Russian industrialization (duration) | 41 | |
| 162391743 | 1885 | Formation of National Congress Party in India (year) | 42 | |
| 162391744 | 1886-1888 | Slavery abolished in Cuba and Brazil (duration) | 43 | |
| 162391745 | 1890 | Japanese constitution (year) | 44 | |
| 162391746 | 1890s | Partition of east Africa (decade) | 45 | |
| 162391747 | 1890s | European leases in China (decade) | 46 | |
| 162391748 | 1894-1895 | Sino-Japanese War (duration) | 47 | |
| 162391749 | 1895 | Cuban revolt against Spain (year) | 48 | |
| 162391750 | 1898 | Formation of Marxist Social Democratic Party in Russia (year) | 49 | |
| 162391751 | 1898 | Spanish-American War; United States acquires the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii; United States intervenes in Cuba (year) | 50 | |
| 162391752 | 1898-1901 | Boxer Rebellion in China (duration) | 51 | |
| 162391753 | 1901 | Commonwealth of Australia (year) | 52 | |
| 162391754 | 1903 | Construction of Panama Canal begins (year) | 53 | |
| 162391755 | 1904-1905 | Russo-Japanese War (duration) | 54 | |
| 162391756 | 1905-1906 | Revolution in Russia; limited reforms (duration) | 55 | |
| 162391757 | 1908 | Young Turks rising (year) | 56 | |
| 162391758 | 1910 | Japan annexes Korea (year) | 57 | |
| 162391759 | 1911-1912 | Revolution in China; end of empire (duration) | 58 | |
| 162391760 | 1914-1918 | World War 1 (duration) | 59 |
