377508319 | 8000 BCE | Beginnings of Agriculture | 0 | |
377508320 | 3000 BCE | Beginnings of Bronze Age and early civilizations | 1 | |
377508321 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 2 | |
377508322 | 6th C. BCE | Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism | 3 | |
377508323 | 5th C BCE | Greek Golden Age (philosophers, etc.) | 4 | |
377508324 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
377508325 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 6 | |
377508326 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
377508327 | 180 CE | End of Pax Romana | 8 | |
377508328 | 220 CE | End of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
377508329 | 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
377508330 | 4th C CE | Beginning of Trans-Saharan trade routes | 11 | |
377508331 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome | 12 | |
377508332 | 527 CE | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
378443261 | 622 CE | Rise of Islam | 14 | |
378443262 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
378443263 | 800 CE | Coronation of Charlemagne | 16 | |
378443264 | 1054 CE | 1st Schism in Christian Church | 17 | |
378443265 | 1066 CE | Norman conquest of England | 18 | |
378443266 | 1071 CE | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks over Byzantium) | 19 | |
378443267 | 1095 CE | First Crusade | 20 | |
378443268 | 1206 CE | Mongols united under Genghis Khan | 21 | |
378443269 | 1271-1295 CE | Marco Polo's travels | 22 | |
378443270 | 1324 CE | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 23 | |
378443271 | 1325-1349 CE | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 24 | |
378443272 | 1347-1348 CE | Bubonic Plague in Europe | 25 | |
378443273 | 1433 CE | End of Zheng He's voyages | 26 | |
378443274 | 14th C CE | Rise of the Ottomans | 27 | |
381210184 | 1453 CE | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 28 | |
381210185 | 1488 CE | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 29 | |
381210186 | 1492 CE | Columbus's first voyage/ Reconquista of Spain | 30 | |
381210187 | 1502 CE | First slaves to Americas | 31 | |
381210188 | 1517 CE | Martin Luther/95 Theses | 32 | |
381210189 | 1521 CE | Cortez conquered Aztecs | 33 | |
381210190 | 1533 CE | Pizarro conquered Incas | 34 | |
381210191 | 1588 CE | British defeat Spanish Armada | 35 | |
381210192 | 1600 CE | Unification of Japan under Tokugawa rule | 36 | |
381210193 | 1607 CE | Foundation of Jamestown | 37 | |
381210194 | 1618-1648 CE | 30 Years War | 38 | |
381210195 | 1683 CE | Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 39 | |
381210196 | 1689 CE | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 40 | |
381210197 | 1756-1763 CE | 7 Years War (French and Indian War) | 41 | |
381210198 | 1776 CE | American Revolution/ Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 42 | |
381210199 | 1789 CE | French Revolution Begins | 43 | |
383429652 | 1804 CE | Haitian Independence | 44 | |
383429653 | 1815 CE | Congress of Vienna | 45 | |
383429654 | 1820s CE | Independence in Latin America | 46 | |
383429655 | 1839 CE | 1st Opium War in China | 47 | |
383429656 | 1848 CE | European Revolutions/ Communist Manifesto written | 48 | |
383429657 | 1853 CE | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 49 | |
383429658 | 1857 CE | Sepoy Mutiny | 50 | |
383429659 | 1861 CE | End of Russian serfdom/ Italian unification | 51 | |
383429660 | 1863 CE | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 52 | |
383429661 | 1871 CE | German unification | 53 | |
383429662 | 1885 CE | Berlin Conference (division of Africa) | 54 | |
383429663 | 1898 CE | Spanish-American War | 55 | |
383429664 | 1899 CE | Boer War (British control South Africa) | 56 | |
383429665 | 1905 CE | Russo-Japanese War | 57 | |
383429666 | 1910-1920 CE | Mexican Revolution | 58 | |
383429667 | 1911 CE | Chinese Revolution/ End of Dynastic Rule | 59 |
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