These dates do not all appear on your final exam, but knowing what events happen in specific centuries can help eliminate choices when faced with a difficult Multiple Choice question.
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| 142415869 | 8000 BCE | Beginnings of Agriculture | |
| 142415870 | 476 CE | Fall of Western Roman Empire | |
| 142415871 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | |
| 142415872 | 221 CE | Qin unified China | |
| 142415873 | 527 CE | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | |
| 142415874 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | |
| 142415875 | 3000 BCE | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilizations | |
| 142415876 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | |
| 142415877 | 220 BCE | End of Han Dynasty | |
| 142415878 | 6th century BCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism) | |
| 142415879 | 180 CE | end of Pax Romana | |
| 142415880 | 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | |
| 142415881 | 5th century BCE | Greek golden age | |
| 142415883 | 1405 - 1433 | Zheng He's voyages in the Indian Ocean | |
| 142415885 | 1066 CE | Norman conquest of England | |
| 142415887 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | |
| 142415889 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines) | |
| 142415890 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | |
| 142415891 | 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Buttuta | |
| 142415892 | 622 CE | Founding of Islam | |
| 142415894 | 1054 CE | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) | |
| 142415896 | 1096 CE | 1st Crusade | |
| 142415898 | 1347 | start of Bubonic Plague in Europe | |
| 142418765 | 1989 | 1989 - Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | |
| 142418766 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | |
| 142445904 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | |
| 142445905 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | |
| 142445906 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | |
| 142445907 | 1937 | Japanese invasion of China | |
| 142445908 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | |
| 142445909 | 1945 | end of WWII | |
| 142445910 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | |
| 142445911 | 1947 | Independence & Partition of India | |
| 142445912 | 1948 | Birth of Israel/Establishment of apartheid in South Africa | |
| 142445913 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | |
| 142445914 | 1967 | 6-Day War/Chinese Cultural Revolution | |
| 142448513 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | |
| 142448514 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | |
| 142448515 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | |
| 142448516 | 1517 | Martin Luther/95 theses - Beginning of the Protestant Reformation | |
| 142448517 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | |
| 142448518 | 1600 - 1867 | Tokugawa Shogunate | |
| 142448519 | 1502 | 1st Slaves to Americas | |
| 142448520 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | |
| 142448521 | 1789 | French Revolution | |
| 142448522 | 1804 | Haitian independence | |
| 142448523 | 1836 | 1st opium war in China | |
| 142448524 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | |
| 142448525 | 1689 | English Bill of Rights | |
| 142448526 | 1929 | stock market crash | |
| 142448527 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | |
| 142448528 | 1776 | American Revolution | |
| 142448529 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | |
| 142448530 | 1848 | Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | |
| 142448531 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | |
| 142448532 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | |
| 142448533 | 1820's | Independence in Latin America | |
| 142448534 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | |
| 142448535 | 1871 | German unification | |
| 142448536 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | |
| 142460887 | 1958-1961 | Great Leap Forward in China | |
| 142460888 | 1991 | Fall of the Soviet Union | |
| 142460889 | 1904-1905 | Russo-Japanese War | |
| 142460890 | 1750's | Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in England | |
| 142460891 | 1807 | end of British slave trade | |
| 142460892 | 1910 - 1920 | Mexican Revolution | |
| 142460893 | 1526-1858 | Mughal Dynasty | |
| 142460894 | 1497-1498 | Vasco da Gama's voyage to India | |
| 142460895 | 1453 | Fall of the eastern Roman empire (Byzantine) | |
| 142460896 | 1613 - 1917 | Romanov Dynasty | |
| 142460897 | 1644-1911 | Qing Dynasty (China) | |
| 142460898 | 618-907 | Tang Dynasty | |
| 142460899 | 1289 - 1923 | Ottoman Dynasty/Ottoman Empire | |
| 142460900 | 1279-1368 | Yuan Dynasty | |
| 142460901 | 1368 - 1644 | Ming Dynasty | |
| 142460902 | 1211 | Beginning of Mongol conquests | |
| 142460903 | 960-1279 | Song Dynasty | |
| 142460904 | 750 -1258 | Abbasid Dynasty | |
| 142460905 | 1330's | Beginnings of Bubonic plague in China | |
| 142460906 | 206 B.C.E.-220 C.E. | Han dynasty | |
| 142460907 | 1403-221 B.C.E. | Period of the Warring States in China | |
| 142460908 | 300-1100 C.E. | Mayan civilization | |
| 142460909 | 320-550 C.E. | Gupta dynasty | |
| 142460910 | Third-first centuries B.C.E. | Spread of Buddhism and Hinduism from South Asia | |
| 142460911 | 336-323 B.C.E. | Rule of Alexander of Macedon (the Great) | |
| 142460912 | 3000 B.C.E.-1000 C.E. | Indo-European migrations | |
| 142460913 | 1500-500 B.C.E. | Vedic Age in South Asia | |
| 142460914 | 2200 B.C.E. | Beginning of Chinese dynastic rule | |
| 142460915 | 4 B.C.E.-29 C.E. | Life of Jesus Christ | |
| 142460916 | 4000 B.C.E. | First cities | |
| 142460917 | 2500-2000 B.C.E. | Height of Harappan society in South Asia | |
| 142460918 | 1643-1715 | Reign of Louis XIV of France | |
| 142460919 | 1494 | Treaty ofTordesillas | |
| 142460920 | 1441 | Beginning of the Portuguese slave trade in Africa | |
| 142460921 | 711-1492 | Muslim occupation of Spain | |
| 142460922 | 570-632 | Life of Muhammad | |
| 142460923 | 1500 B.C.E. | Beginning of Aryan migrations to South Asia | |
| 142460924 | 2600-2500 B.C.E. | Pyramid construction in Egypt | |
| 142460925 | 509 B.C.E. | Establishment of the Roman republic | |
| 142460926 | 800 B.C.E. | Establishment of Greek polis | |
| 142460927 | 1869 | Opening of the Suez Canal | |
| 142460928 | 1868 | Meiji Restoration (Japan) | |
| 142460929 | 1918 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russian withdrawal from WWI) | |
| 142460930 | 1980-1988 | Iran-Iraq war | |
| 142460931 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | |
| 142460932 | 1949 | Establishment of NATO | |
| 142461604 | 1955 | Establishment of the Warsaw Pact | |
| 142461605 | 1990 | Reunification of Germany | |
| 142461606 | 1995 | Establishment of the World Trade Organization | |
| 142461607 | 1990-1991 | Gulf War |
