155201344 | 6th century B.C.E. | life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu | 0 | |
155201345 | 5th century B.C.E. | Greek Golden Age - philosophers, scientists, writers etc... | 1 | |
155201346 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great | 2 | |
155201347 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin unified China | 3 | |
155201348 | 32 C.E. | Beginnings of Christianity | 4 | |
155201349 | 180 C.E. | end of Pax Romana | 5 | |
155201350 | 220 C.E. | end of Han Dynasty | 6 | |
155201351 | 333 C.E | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 7 | |
155201352 | 4th century C.E | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 8 | |
155201353 | 476 C.E | Fall of Rome | 9 | |
155201354 | 527 C.E | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 10 | |
155201355 | 632 | Rise of Islam | 11 | |
155201356 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end Muslim expansion into France) | 12 | |
155201357 | 1054 | 1st schism in the Christian church | 13 | |
155201358 | 1066 | Norman (viking) conquest of England | 14 | |
155201359 | 1095 | 1st crusade | 15 | |
155201360 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad (Tamerlane ending Abbasid caliphate) | 16 | |
155201361 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels to Kublai Khan's court | 17 | |
155201362 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 18 | |
155201363 | 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 19 | |
155201364 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 20 | |
155201365 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages | 21 | |
155201366 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 22 | |
155201367 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 23 | |
155201368 | 1492 | Columbus/Islam out of Spain | 24 | |
155201369 | 1502 | 1st Slaves to the Americas | 25 | |
155201370 | 1517 | Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation | 26 | |
155201371 | 1521 | Cortez conquers Aztecs | 27 | |
155201372 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Incas | 28 | |
155201373 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (Ottomans out of global trade networks) | 29 | |
155201374 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada by British | 30 | |
155201375 | 1600 | Tokugawa Shogunate; unification of Japan | 31 | |
155201376 | 1607 | foundation of Jamestown (Pocahontas) | 32 | |
155201377 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 33 | |
155201378 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 34 | |
155201379 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 35 | |
155201380 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war, AKA French and Indian war | 36 | |
155201381 | 1776 | American Revolution / Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 37 | |
155201382 | 1789 | French Revolution begins | 38 | |
155201383 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 39 | |
155201384 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 40 | |
155201385 | 1820s | Independence movement in Latin America | 41 | |
155201386 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | 42 | |
155201387 | 1848 | European Revolutions / Marx writes Communist Manifesto | 43 | |
155201388 | 1853 | Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade | 44 | |
155201389 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny in India | 45 | |
155201390 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom / Italian unification | 46 | |
155201391 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US (promise to free slaves) | 47 | |
155201392 | 1871 | German unification (Otto von Bismark's 2nd Reich) | 48 | |
155201393 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - European Imperialism / division of Africa | 49 | |
155201394 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - US becomes imperialistic - Phillipines, Cuba, PR | 50 | |
155201395 | 1899-1902 | Boer War - British control of S. Africa and apartheid | 51 | |
155201396 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 52 | |
155201397 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution - Father Hidalgo inspires | 53 | |
155201398 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution/End of Dynastic cycle AKA end of Imperial China | 54 | |
155201399 | 1914 | WW1 begins | 55 | |
155201400 | 1917 | Russian Revolution (Lenin and the end of Imperial Russia) | 56 | |
155201401 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WW1 | 57 | |
155201402 | 1929 | Stock market crash in US start of global economic depression | 58 | |
155201403 | 1931 | Japanese invade Manchuria | 59 | |
155201404 | 1945 | end of WW2 | 60 | |
155201405 | 1947 | independence and partition of India (Gandhi) | 61 | |
155201406 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 62 | |
155201407 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution (led by Mao Ze Dong) | 63 | |
155201408 | 1950-1953 | Korean War (U.N action) | 64 | |
155201409 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat of French at Dien Bien Phu beginning of U.S involvement | 65 |
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