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139877665268000 BCENeolithic Revolution (beginning of agriculture)0
139877665273000 BCEBronze Age (early River Valley Civilizations)1
139877665286th Century BCEfoundation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism/Life of Confucius, Buddha, Laozi2
139877665295th Century BCEGreek Golden Age of Philosophers3
13987766530323 BCEAlexander the Great (that hair though!)4
13987766531221 BCEQin Dynasty Founded5
1398776653232 CEBeginning of Christianity6
13987766533180 CEPax Romana begins7
13987766534220 CEHan Dynasty Falls8
13987766535333 CEConstantinople new capital of Roman Empire9
139877665364th Century CETrans-Sahara trade routes established10
13987766537476 CEFall of Rome11
13987766538527 CEJustinian's reign of Byzantine Empire12
13987766539622 CEFounding of Islam13
13987766540732 CEBattle of Tours (to end Muslims pushing into France)14
139877665411054Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)15
139877665421066Norman Conquest of England16
139877665431095First Crusade17
139877665441258Mongols sack Baghdad18
139877665451271-1295Marco Polo's Travels19
139877665461324Mansa Musa's pilgramage20
139877665471325-1349Ibn Battuta's travels21
139877665481347-1348Bubonic plague in Europe22
139877665491433Ming navy ends23
139877665501453Ottomans capture Constantinople24
139877665511488Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope25
139877665521492Columbus sails the ocean blue AND Reconquista completed26
139877665531502First slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas27
139877665541517Martin Luther's 95 theses28
139877665551521Cortez conquers the Aztecs29
139877665561533Pizarro conquers the Inca30
139877665571588Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British31
139877665581600Beginning of Tokugawa shogunate32
139877665591607Jamestown founded in North America33
139877665601689Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights34
139877665611790Industrial Revolution35
139877665621756-1763Seven Years' War/French and Indian War36
139877665631776American Revolution AND Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations37
139877665641789French Revolution38
139877665651804Haitian Independence39
139877665661815Congress of Vienna40
139877665671820sIndependence of Latin America41
139877665681839Opium War between England and China42
139877665691848Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write "The Communist Manifesto"43
139877665701853Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade44
139877665711857Sepoy Mutiny45
139877665721861Russian serfs emancipated46
139877665731863Emancipation Proclamation in the US47
139877665741885Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)48
139877665751898Spanish American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico)49
139877665761899Boer War (British put down rebellion by Boers in eastern South Africa)50
139877665771905Russo-Japanese War51
139877665781910-1920Mexican Revolution52
139877665791911Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty)53
139877665801914WWI begins54
139877665811917Russian revolutions: Duma overthrows Czar Nicholas and Bolshevik Revolution55
139877665821919Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI)56
139877665831929Stock Market crash57
139877665841935Italian invasion of Ethiopia58
139877665851931Japanese invasion of Manchuria59
139877665861939Germany invades Poland (beginning WWII in Europe)60
139877665871941Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore / U.S. entry into WWII61
139877665881945WWII ends62
139877665891947India partitioned and wins independence from Britain63
139877665901948state of Israel created64
139877665911949Chinese Communist Party takes control of China65
139877665921950-1953Korean War66
139877665931956De-Stalinization begins AND Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt67
139877665941959Cuban Revolution68
139877665951962Cuban Missile Crisis69
1398776659619676-Day War between Israel and Arab nations70
139877665971966-1976Chinese Cultural Revolution71
139877665981979Iranian Revolution72
139877665991989Tiananmen Square protests/Fall of Berlin Wall73
139877666001991Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War74

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