Important World History dates
400637794 | 8000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of agriculture. | 0 | |
400637795 | 3000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's. | 1 | |
400637796 | 1300 B.C.E. | Iron Age. | 2 | |
400637797 | 6th Century B.C.E. | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
400637798 | 5th C B.C.E. | Greek Golden Age - philosophers. | 4 | |
400637799 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great. | 5 | |
400637800 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin unified China. | 6 | |
400637801 | 32 C.E. | Beginnings of Christianity. | 7 | |
400637802 | 180 C.E. | end of Pax Romana. | 8 | |
400637803 | 220 C.E. | end of Han Dynasty. | 9 | |
400637804 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople. | 10 | |
400637805 | 4th Century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes. | 11 | |
400637806 | 476 | Fall of Rome. | 12 | |
400637807 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire. | 13 | |
400637808 | 632 | Rise of Islam. | 14 | |
400637809 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
400637810 | 1054 | 1st Schism in Christian Church. | 16 | |
400637811 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
400637812 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 18 | |
400637813 | 1095 | 1st Crusade. | 19 | |
400637814 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad. | 20 | |
400637815 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels. | 21 | |
400637816 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage. | 22 | |
400637817 | 1324-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta. | 23 | |
400637818 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe. | 24 | |
400637819 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans. | 25 | |
400637820 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
400637821 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope. | 27 | |
400637822 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ REconquista of Spain | 28 | |
400637823 | 1502 | Slaves tro Americas | 29 | |
400637824 | 1517 | Martine Luther/95 theses | 30 | |
400637825 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
400637826 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
400637827 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
400637828 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
400637829 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
400637830 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
400637831 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
400637832 | 1683 | -unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
400637833 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
400637834 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian War | 40 | |
400637835 | 1776 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
400637836 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
400637837 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 43 | |
400637838 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
400637839 | 1820s | Independence of Latin America | 45 | |
400637840 | 1839 | 1st opium war in China | 46 | |
400637841 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
400637842 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
400637843 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
400637844 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 50 | |
400637845 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in Us | 51 | |
400637846 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
400637847 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
400637848 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
400637849 | 1899 | Boer War - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
400637850 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 56 | |
400637851 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
400637852 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
400637853 | 1914 | World War I | 59 | |
400637854 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
400637855 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 61 | |
400637856 | 1929 | stock market crash | 62 | |
400637857 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
400637858 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
400637859 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
400637860 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
400637861 | 1945 | End of WWII | 67 | |
400637862 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 68 | |
400637863 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 69 | |
400637864 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
400637865 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 71 | |
400637866 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
400637867 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 73 | |
400637868 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
400637869 | 1962 | Cuban Missile crisis | 75 | |
400637870 | 1967 | 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
400637871 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 77 | |
400637872 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
400637873 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
400637874 | 1991 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 80 | |
400637875 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa | 81 | |
400637876 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 82 |