According to anonymous sources, the starred dates are the ones most likely to show up on the AP World History Exam.
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| 9636868625 | ca. 8000 BCE | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
| 9636868626 | 3500 BCE | Invention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia) and sail (Egypt) | 1 | |
| 9636868627 | 3200 BCE | Invention of writing in Mesopotamia | 2 | |
| 9636868628 | ca. 3000 BCE | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's | 3 | |
| 9636868629 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 4 | |
| 9636868630 | 6th Century BCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi. Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism | 5 | |
| 9636975578 | 5th Cen. BCE | Greek Golden Age - Philosophers | 6 | |
| 9636980763 | 403-221 BCE | China - Warring States Period | 7 | |
| 9636868631 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 8 | |
| 9636868632 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China (end of period of warring states) | 9 | |
| 9636868633 | 184 BCE | Fall of the Mauryan Dynasty | 10 | |
| 9636868634 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 11 | |
| 9636990141 | 180 CE | End of pax romana | 12 | |
| 9636868636 | 220 CE | end of Han Dynasty | 13 | |
| 9636868637 | 312 CE | Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 14 | |
| 9636868638 | 320 CE | Rise of the Gupta in India | 15 | |
| 9636868639 | 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 16 | |
| 9636868730 | 4th Century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 17 | |
| 9636868640 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome in the West ends 800 years of Roman Hegemony | 18 | |
| 9636868641 | 527 CE | Justinian rules Byzantine Empire | 19 | |
| 9636868642 | 550 CE | Fall of the Gupta in India | 20 | |
| 9636868643 | 622 CE * | Rise of Islam/beginning of Islamic calendar/hijrah | 21 | |
| 9636868644 | ca. 730 CE | Printing invented in China | 22 | |
| 9636868645 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move to France) | 23 | |
| 9636868646 | ca. 900 CE | Decline of classical Maya | 24 | |
| 9636868647 | 1054 CE | Schism of Eastern Orthodox and Latin Roman Catholic Churches divides Christianity permanently into two geographical and denominational halves | 25 | |
| 9636868648 | 1066 CE | Norman Conquest of England (William the Conqueror, the song) | 26 | |
| 9637029461 | 1071 CE | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turns defeat Byzantine Army) | 27 | |
| 9636868649 | 1095 CE | 1st Crusade | 28 | |
| 9636868650 | 1206 CE * | Genghis Khan begins Mongol conquest of Asia | 29 | |
| 9636868651 | 1215 CE | Magna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede: Beginning of constitutional rule | 30 | |
| 9636868652 | 1258 CE | Mongols conquer Baghdad | 31 | |
| 9636868653 | 1271-1295 CE | Marco Polo travels | 32 | |
| 9637043485 | 1279-1368 CE | Yuan (Mongol) dynasty in China | 33 | |
| 9636868654 | 1300s | Rise of the Ottomans | 34 | |
| 9636868655 | 1324 CE | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage/hajj | 35 | |
| 9636868656 | 1325- 1349 CE | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 36 | |
| 9636868657 | 1347- 1348 CE | Bubonic Plague in Europe | 37 | |
| 9636868658 | 1405-1433 CE | Zheng He's voyages | 38 | |
| 9636868659 | 1438 CE | Rise of the Incas | 39 | |
| 9636868660 | 1453 CE* | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 40 | |
| 9637057232 | 1450s | Gutenberg's printing press in Europe | 41 | |
| 9636868661 | 1480s CE | Aztec Empire at its height | 42 | |
| 9636868662 | 1488 CE | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 43 | |
| 9636868663 | 1492 CE* | Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/ Reconquista of Spain | 44 | |
| 9636868664 | 1502 CE* | First African slaves transported to Caribbean | 45 | |
| 9636868665 | 1517 CE | Martin Luther (95 Theses, Protestant Reformation) | 46 | |
| 9636868666 | 1521 CE | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 47 | |
| 9637069817 | 1529 | 1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman) | 48 | |
| 9636868667 | 1533 CE | Pizarro conquers Inca | 49 | |
| 9636868668 | 1545 CE* | Silver discovered at Potosi | 50 | |
| 9636868669 | 1571 CE | Battle of Lepanto- naval defeat of Ottomans | 51 | |
| 9636868670 | 1588 CE | Defeat of the Spanish Armada | 52 | |
| 9636868671 | 1600 CE* | beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate/Battle of Sekigahara | 53 | |
| 9636868672 | 1607 CE | Founding of Jamestown (first slaves there in 1619) | 54 | |
| 9636868673 | 1618-1648 CE | 30 years war in Europe | 55 | |
| 9636868674 | 1644 CE | End of Ming Dynasty- rise of the Qing | 56 | |
| 9636868675 | 1652 CE | Establishment of Cape Town Colony (Dutch) | 57 | |
| 9636868676 | 1683 CE | 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 58 | |
| 9636868677 | 1689 CE | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights | 59 | |
| 9636868678 | 1756-1763 CE | 7 years war/ French and Indian War | 60 | |
| 9636868679 | 1760 CE | About when the Industrial Revolution begins (steam locomotives, textiles, etc) | 61 | |
| 9636868680 | 1767 CE | Invention of the Spinning Jenny: man-using machines | 62 | |
| 9636868681 | 1776 CE | The American Declaration of Independence | 63 | |
| 9644685283 | 1776 CE | Smith writes "Wealth of Nations" | 64 | |
| 9636868682 | 1789 CE | French Revolution. The French Declaration of the RIghts of Man and Citizen (Olympe de Gouges' "Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen" in 1791) | 65 | |
| 9636868683 | 1796 CE | Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination: the first real breakthrough in combating infectious diseases | 66 | |
| 9636868684 | 1804 CE* | Haitian Independence | 67 | |
| 9636868685 | 1807 CE | British abolition of the slave trade | 68 | |
| 9644706172 | 1807-1808 CE | Janissary Revolt | 69 | |
| 9636868686 | 1810-1825 CE | Latin American independence (first Mexican Revolution) | 70 | |
| 9636868687 | 1815 CE | Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna (after Battle of Waterloo: The Napoleonic Empire ends) | 71 | |
| 9636868688 | 1839 CE | 1st Opium War between China and England | 72 | |
| 9644721096 | 1839-1878 CE | Tanzimat Reforms | 73 | |
| 9636868689 | 1848 CE | European Revolutions/ Marx and Engels write "Communist Manifesto"/ The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference | 74 | |
| 9644734292 | 1848-1849 CE | European Revolutions | 75 | |
| 9636868690 | 1853 CE | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 76 | |
| 9636868691 | 1857 CE* | Sepoy Mutiny in India | 77 | |
| 9636868692 | 1861 CE* | End of Russian serfdom by Alexander II/ Italian unification | 78 | |
| 9644745343 | 1861-1865 CE | U.S. Civil War | 79 | |
| 9644752542 | 1861-1870 CE | Italian Unification | 80 | |
| 9636868693 | 1863 CE | "Emancipation Proclamation" issued in US | 81 | |
| 9636868694 | 1871 CE | German unification | 82 | |
| 9636868695 | 1885 CE | Berlin Conference/Benz develops first petrol-driven car | 83 | |
| 9636868696 | 1893 CE | New Zealand first to give women suffrage (other nations in the Commonwealth soon follow) | 84 | |
| 9636868697 | 1896 CE | Battle of Adwa. Ethiopians fend of Italians | 85 | |
| 9636868698 | 1898 CE | Spanish-American War- Spain loses Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Phillipines | 86 | |
| 9636868699 | 1899 CE | Boer War- Dutch under British rule in South Africa | 87 | |
| 9636868700 | 1905 CE* | Russo-Japanese War and Einstein's theory of special relativity published | 88 | |
| 9636868701 | 1910-1920* | Mexican Revolution | 89 | |
| 9636868702 | 1911* | Chinese Revolution (End of Qing) | 90 | |
| 9636868703 | 1914-1919* | World War I and Treaty of Versailles | 91 | |
| 9636868704 | 1917* | Russian Revolution | 92 | |
| 9644789013 | 1918 | Armistice of WWI | 93 | |
| 9636868731 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles | 94 | |
| 9644798719 | 1928 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | 95 | |
| 9636868705 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash/ Great Depression | 96 | |
| 9636868706 | 1931* | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 97 | |
| 9636868707 | 1935 | Italian Invasion of Ethiopia | 98 | |
| 9644807766 | 1937 | Japanese invasion of China | 99 | |
| 9636868708 | 1939 | German Blitzkreig on Poland | 100 | |
| 9636868709 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor | 101 | |
| 9636868710 | 1943 | Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad | 102 | |
| 9644820865 | 1945 (Feb) | Yalta Conference | 103 | |
| 9644828216 | 1945 (Aug) | Hiroshima/Nagasaki | 104 | |
| 9636868711 | 1945* (Sept) | End of World War II | 105 | |
| 9644842556 | 1947 (June) | Truman Doctrine | 106 | |
| 9636868712 | 1947* (Aug) | Freedom and partition of India | 107 | |
| 9636868713 | 1948* | Birth of Israel and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 108 | |
| 9644848384 | 1948-1949 | Berlin Blockade/Airlift | 109 | |
| 9644858767 | 1949 (Apr) | NATO founded | 110 | |
| 9636868714 | 1949* | Chinese Communist Revolution | 111 | |
| 9636868715 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 112 | |
| 9636868716 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 113 | |
| 9644868207 | 1955 | Bandung Conference - reps from twenty-nine gov'ts of Asian & African nations in Bandung, Indonesia to discuss peace and the role of the Third World in the Cold War, economic development, and decolonization | 114 | |
| 9636868717 | 1956* | de-Stalinization/ Nationalization of Suez Canal | 115 | |
| 9636868718 | 1957* | Ghana is the first African Nation to gain independence | 116 | |
| 9644874327 | 1957 | Sputnik | 117 | |
| 9636868719 | 1959* | Cuban Revolution and invention of silicon chip (beginning of the computer age) | 118 | |
| 9636868732 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 119 | |
| 9644879284 | 1966-1976 | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 120 | |
| 9636868720 | 1967 | 6 day war/ Chinese Cultural Revolution | 121 | |
| 9636868721 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 122 | |
| 9636868722 | 1979* | Iranian Revolution | 123 | |
| 9644893104 | 1979 | China begins "Socialist Market Economy" reforms | 124 | |
| 9636868723 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 125 | |
| 9636868724 | 1989* | Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin Wall- Collapse of Communist regimes in Europe | 126 | |
| 9636868725 | 1990 | Namibia is the last country to gain independence in Africa | 127 | |
| 9636868726 | 1991* | Fall of the USSR/ 1st Gulf War | 128 | |
| 9636868727 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in South Africa | 129 | |
| 9636868728 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks/ War in Afghanistan | 130 | |
| 9644906328 | 2003 | US invades Iraq ("Enduring Freedom") | 131 | |
| 9644919200 | 2004 | Facebook founded | 132 | |
| 9636868729 | 2007 | Great Global Recession begins | 133 | |
| 9644922019 | 2011 | Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy | 134 |
