Dates for the AP World Dates Quiz
382079967 | 8000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
382079968 | 3000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of Bronze Age- early civ's | 1 | |
382079969 | 1300 B.C.E. | Iron Age | 2 | |
382079970 | 6th century B.C.E. | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao, Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
382079971 | 5th century B.C.E. | Greek Golden Age- philosophers | 4 | |
382079972 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
382079973 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin unified China | 6 | |
382079974 | 32 C.E. | Beginnings of Chrisitanity | 7 | |
382079975 | 180 C.E. | End of Pax Romana | 8 | |
382079976 | 220 C.E. | End of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
382079977 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
382079978 | 4th century | Beginnings of Trans-Sahara Trade Routes | 11 | |
382079979 | 476 | Fall of Rome | 12 | |
382079980 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
382079981 | 632 | Rise of Islam | 14 | |
382079982 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
382079983 | 1054 | First Schism in Christian Church | 16 | |
382079984 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
382079985 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 18 | |
382079986 | 1095 | First Crusade | 19 | |
382079987 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
382079988 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
382079989 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
382079990 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
382079991 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
382079992 | 1433 | End of Zheng He's voyages/ Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
382079993 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
382079994 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
382079995 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
382079996 | 1502 | Slaves to Americas | 29 | |
382079997 | 1517 | Martin Luther/ 95 theses | 30 | |
382079998 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
382079999 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
382080000 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
382080001 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armanda by the British | 34 | |
382080002 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara- beginning of Tokuguawa | 35 | |
382080003 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
382080004 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
382080005 | 1683 | Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
382080006 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
382080007 | 1750 | Industrial Revolution | 40 | |
382080008 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/ French and Indian War | 41 | |
382080009 | 1776 | American Revolution/ Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 42 | |
382080010 | 1789 | French Revolution | 43 | |
382080011 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 44 | |
382080012 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 45 | |
382080013 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 46 | |
382080014 | 1839 | First opium war in China | 47 | |
382080015 | 1848 | European revolutions/ Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto | 48 | |
382080016 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 49 | |
382080017 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 50 | |
382080018 | 1861 | End of Russian serfdom/ Italian unification | 51 | |
382080019 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 52 | |
382080020 | 1871 | German unification | 53 | |
382080021 | 1885 | Berlin Conference- division of Africa | 54 | |
382080022 | 1898 | Spanish-American War- US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico | 55 | |
382080023 | 1899 | Boer War- British in control of South Africa | 56 | |
382080024 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war | 57 | |
382080025 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 58 | |
382080026 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 59 | |
382080027 | 1914 | World War I | 60 | |
382080028 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 61 | |
382080029 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles- end of World War I | 62 | |
382080030 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | 63 | |
382080031 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 64 | |
382080032 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 65 | |
382080033 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 66 | |
382080034 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into World War II | 67 | |
382080035 | 1945 | End of World War II | 68 | |
382080036 | 1947 | Independence and partition of India | 69 | |
382080037 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 70 | |
382080038 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 71 | |
382080039 | 1950-1953 | Korean Revolution | 72 | |
382080040 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 73 | |
382080041 | 1956 | De-Stalinization/ Nationalization of Suez Canal | 74 | |
382080042 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 75 | |
382080043 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 76 | |
382080044 | 1967 | 6-day war/ Chinese Cultural Revolution | 77 | |
382080045 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 78 | |
382080046 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 79 | |
382080047 | 1987 | First Palestinian Intifada | 80 | |
382080048 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin Wall | 81 | |
382080049 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/ First Gulf war | 82 | |
382080050 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda/ first all race election in South Africa | 83 | |
382080051 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 84 |