13971117503 | 8000 BCE | Neolithic Revolution | 0 | |
13971120776 | 500s BCE | Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism | 1 | |
13971131170 | 221 BCE | Qin Dynasty unified China | 2 | |
13971136141 | 206 BCE-220 Ce | Han Dynasty in China | 3 | |
13971138398 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 4 | |
13971141125 | 476 CE | fall of Rome | 5 | |
13971144826 | 570 CE | Birth of Muhammed (Islam) | 6 | |
13971163553 | 1258 CE | Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate | 7 | |
13971172432 | 1271-1295 CE | Marco Polo's journeys | 8 | |
13971175366 | 1324 CE | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 9 | |
13971180364 | 1325-1349 CE | Ibn Battuta's travels | 10 | |
13971190970 | 1347-1348 CE | Bubonic plague in Europe | 11 | |
13971198432 | 1405-1433 CE | Zheng He's voyages | 12 | |
13971201258 | 1453 CE | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 13 | |
13971203733 | 1492 CE | Columbus/Reconquista of Spain | 14 | |
13971206815 | 1502 CE | first slaves to America | 15 | |
13971209320 | 1517 CE | Martin Luther/95 theses | 16 | |
13971211654 | 1521 CE | Cortez conquers the Aztecs | 17 | |
13971215373 | 1533 CE | Pizarro conquered the Incas | 18 | |
13971218007 | 1618-1648 CE | 30 years war | 19 | |
13971220554 | 1689 CE | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 20 | |
13971232709 | 1750s CE | Industrial Revolution begins in England | 21 | |
13971258469 | 1756-1763 CE | 7 years war/French and Indian War | 22 | |
13971267423 | 1776 CE | Declaration of Independence | 23 | |
13971271201 | 1789 CE | French Revolution | 24 | |
13971273171 | 1804 CE | Haitian Revolution | 25 | |
13971279738 | 1839-1860s CE | Opium Wars in China | 26 | |
13971301888 | 1848 CE | Marx & Engles' The Communist Manifesto | 27 | |
13971305108 | 1857 CE | Sepoy Mutiny | 28 | |
13971307585 | 1885 CE | Berlin Conference ( Scramble for Africa) | 29 | |
13971330075 | 1905 CE | Russo_Japanese War | 30 | |
13971334713 | 1910-1920 CE | Mexican Revolution | 31 | |
13971337403 | 1911 CE | Chinese Revolution | 32 | |
13971340265 | 1914-1918 CE | WWI | 33 | |
13971358547 | 1917 CE | Russian Revolution | 34 | |
13971360829 | 1929 CE | Start of Great Depression | 35 | |
13971364426 | 1931 CE | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 36 | |
13971379316 | 1939 CE | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 37 | |
13971382554 | 1945 CE | end of WWII | 38 | |
13971384368 | 1947 CE | Independence and partition of India - creation of Pakistan | 39 | |
13971386630 | 1948 CE | Creation of Israel | 40 | |
13971388434 | 1949 CE | Mao Zedong establishes communist China | 41 | |
13971392048 | 1950-1953 CE | Korean War | 42 | |
13971394305 | 1954 CE | Vietnam defeats France | 43 | |
13971396576 | 1959 CE | Cuban Revolution | 44 | |
13971396577 | 1962 CE | Cuban Missile Crisis | 45 | |
13971398851 | 1967 CE | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 46 | |
13971402781 | 1979 CE | Iranian Revolution | 47 | |
13971402822 | 1989 CE | Fall of Berlin Wall | 48 | |
13971404696 | 1991 CE | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 49 | |
13971410224 | 2001 CE | 9/11 Attacks | 50 |
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