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AP World History Must Know Dates 8000BCE-2012 Flashcards

Ms. Rodriguez, Ms. Hohne's AP World History Class. Stanton College Prep

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2836324658000 BCEBeginnings of agriculture0
2836324663000 BCEBeginnings of Bronze Age1
2836324671300 BCEIron Age2
2836324686th Century BCELife of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu3
2836324695th Century BCEGreek Golden Age4
283632470323 BCEAlexander the Great5
283632471221 BCEQin unified China6
28363247232 CEBeginnings of Christianity7
283632473180 CEEnd of Pax Romana8
283632474220 CEEnd of Han Dynasty9
283632475333Roman capital moved to Constantinople10
2836324764th centuryBeginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes11
283632477476Fall of Rome12
283632478527Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire13
283632479632Rise of Islam14
283632480732Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)15
28363248110541st Schism of the Christian Church16
2836324821066Norman conquest of England17
2836324831071Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine)18
2836324841095First Crusade19
2836324851215Signing of Magna Carta in England20
2836324861258Mongols sack Baghdad21
2836324871271-1295Marco Polo travels22
2836324881324Mansa Musa's pilgrimage23
2836324891325-1349travels of Ibn Battuta24
2836324901347-1348Bubonic Plague in Europe25
2836324911433end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of the Ottomans26
2836324921453Ottomans capture Constantinople27
2836324931488Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope28
2836324941492Reconquista of Spain29
2836324951502Slaves to America30
2836324961517Martin Luther/95 Theses31
2836324971521Cortez conquered the Aztecs32
2836324981533Pizarro toppled the Inca33
2836324991571Battle of Lepanto-Navel defeat of the Ottomans34
2836325001588defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English35
2836325011600Battle of Sekigahara-beginning of Tokugawa shogunate36
2836325021607Found of Jamestown37
2836325031618-164830 Years War38
2836325041683unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna39
2836325051689Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights40
3173349941756-17637 Years' War/French and Indian War41
3173349951776American Revolution/ Smith writes "The Wealth of Nations"42
3173349961789French Revolution43
3173349971804Haitian Independence44
3173349981815Congress of Vienna45
3173349991820sIndependence in Latin America46
3173350001839First Opium War in China47
3173350011848Europeans revolutions/ Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto48
3173350021853Commodore Perry opens Japan49
3173350031857Sepoy Munity50
3173350041861end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification51
3173350051863Emancipation Proclamation in the US52
3173350061871German Unification53
3173350071885Berlin Conference-division of Africa54
3173350081898Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico55
3173350091899Boer War - British in control of South Africa56
3173350101905Russo-Japanese War/ Decemberist Revolt in Russia57
3173350111910-1920Mexican Revolution58
3173350121911Chinese Revolution59
3795455261914WWI60
3795455281912Russian Revolution61
3795455301919Treaty of Versailles; end of WWI62
3795455311929Stock Market crash63
3795455321931Japanese invasion of Manchuria64
3795455331935Italian invasion of Ethiopia65
3795455341939German blitzkrieg in Poland66
3795455351941Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII67
3795455361945End of WWII68
3795455371947Independence and partition of India69
3795455381948Birth of Israel70
3795455391949Chinese communist revolution71
3795455401950-1953Korean War72
3795455411954Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu73
3795455421956de-stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal74
3795455431959Cuban Revolution75
3795455441962Cuban missile crisis76
37954554519676-day War/ Chinese Cultural Revolution77
3795455461973Yom Kippur War78
3795455471979Iranian Revolution79
37954554819871st Palestinian Intifada80
3795455491989Tianamen Square/ fall of the Berlin Wall81
3795455501991fall of the USSR/ 1st Gulf War82
3795455511994Rwandan Genocide/ 1st all-race elections in South Africa83
37954555220019/11 attacks84
3795455532003US declare war on Iraq on March 19th Saddam Hussein captured December 14th85

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