65988692 | 8000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
65988693 | 3000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilizations | 1 | |
65988694 | 1300 B.C.E. | Iron Age | 2 | |
65988695 | 6th Century B.C.E. | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
65988696 | 5th Century B.C.E. | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 4 | |
65988697 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
65988698 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin unified China | 6 | |
65988699 | 32 C.E. | Beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
65988700 | 180 C.E. | end of Pax Romana | 8 | |
65988701 | 220 C.E. | end of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
65988702 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
65988703 | 4th Century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 11 | |
65988704 | 476 | Fall of Rome | 12 | |
65988705 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
65988706 | 632 | Rise of Islam | 14 | |
65988707 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
65988708 | 1054 | 1st Schism in Christian Church | 16 | |
65988709 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
65988710 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines) | 18 | |
65988711 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 19 | |
65988712 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
65988713 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
65988714 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
65988715 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
65988716 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
65988717 | 1433 | End of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
65988718 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
65988719 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of good Hope | 27 | |
65988720 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
65988721 | 1502 | Slaves to Americas | 29 | |
65988722 | 1517 | Martin Luther/95 theses | 30 | |
65988723 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
65988724 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
65988725 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
65988726 | 1588 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
65988727 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
65988728 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
65988729 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
65988730 | 1683 | Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
65988731 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
65988732 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian war | 40 | |
65988733 | 1776 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
65988734 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
65988735 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 43 | |
65988736 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
65988737 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
65988738 | 1839 | 1st opium war in China | 46 | |
65988739 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
65988740 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
65988741 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
65988742 | 1861 | End of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 50 | |
65988743 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
65988744 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
65988745 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
65988746 | 1891 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
65988747 | 1899 | Boer War - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
65988748 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war | 56 | |
65988749 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
65988750 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
65988751 | 1914 | WWI | 59 | |
65988752 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
65988753 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 61 | |
65988754 | 1929 | Stock market crash | 62 | |
65988755 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
65988756 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
65988757 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
65988758 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
65988759 | 1945 | End of WWII | 67 | |
65988760 | 1947 | Independence & partition of India | 68 | |
65988761 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 69 | |
65988762 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
65988763 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 71 | |
65988764 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
65988765 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 73 | |
65988766 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
65988767 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 75 | |
65988768 | 1967 | 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
65988769 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 77 | |
65988770 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
65988771 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
65988772 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | 80 | |
65988773 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 81 | |
65988774 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa | 82 | |
65988775 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 83 |
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