Contains twenty important dates and some helpful notes on the most important happenings of each historical period.
6827446260 | 476 | Fall of the Western Roman Empire | 0 | |
6827446261 | 622 | Founding of Islam (Muhammad journeys from Mecca to Medina) | 1 | |
6827446262 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christianity | 2 | |
6827446263 | 1095 | Crusades begin | 3 | |
6827446264 | 1271 | Yuan Dynasty begins (Mongols) | 4 | |
6827446265 | 1347 | Black Death in Europe | 5 | |
6827446266 | 1453 | Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks | 6 | |
6827446267 | 1492 | Columbus reaches the new world | 7 | |
6827446268 | 1517 | Posting of the 95 Theses | 8 | |
6827446269 | 1600 | Tokugawa Shogunate begins | 9 | |
6827446270 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 10 | |
6827446271 | 1776 | American Revolution | 11 | |
6827446272 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 12 | |
6827446273 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 13 | |
6827446274 | 1918 | End of World War I | 14 | |
6827446275 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | 15 | |
6827446276 | 1945 | End of World War II | 16 | |
6827446277 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution (Beginning of western Islamophobia) | 17 | |
6827446278 | 1989 | Autumn Revolutions of Eastern Europe (End of Communism) | 18 | |
6827446279 | 1994 | Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa | 19 | |
6827446280 | 600 BCE to 600 CE | Classical civilizations (Mauryan, Gupta, Qin, Han, Roman, Maya), large-scale agriculture, rise of patriarchy. Calendars, primitive farming tools, trade of small luxury items. | 20 | |
6827446281 | 600-1450 CE | Islam, Crusades, Byzantine Empire, Mongols. Navigation, warfare, and shop building facilitates increased trade and interaction. Trade on Silk Road, Mediterranean, trans-Saharan. | 21 | |
6827446282 | 1450-1750 CE | European Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution, maritime empires, and age of exploration. Gunpowder empires, rise of Asian isolationism (Ming/Qing/Tokugawa), strict patriarchy. | 22 | |
6827446283 | 1750-1900 CE | Enlightenment Revolutions (American, French, Latin American), global imperialism, Industrial Revolution, women join workforce (slightly less patriarchal | 23 | |
6827446284 | 1900-Present | World Wars, communism, Cold War, decolonization, globalization, successful feminist movements | 24 |