AP World Must Know Dates Flashcards

31249782	8000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of agriculture	0
31249783	3000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of Bronze Age (early civ's)	1
31249784	1300 B.C.E.	Iron Age	2
31249785	6th century B.C.E.	life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taosim)	3
31249786	5th C B.C.E.	Greek Golden Age (philosophers)	4
31249787	323 B.C.E.	Alexander the Great	5
31249788	221 B.C.E.	Qin unified China	6
31249789	32 C.E.	Beginnings of Christianity	7
31249790	180 C.E.	end of Pax Romana	8
31249791	220 C.E.	end of Han Dynasty	9
31249792	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
31249793	4th C	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	11
31249794	476	Fall of Rome	12
31249795	527	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	13
31249796	632	Rise of Islam	14
31249797	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	15
31249798	1054	1st Schism in Christian Church	16
31249799	1066	Norman conquest of England	17
31249800	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz)	18
31249801	1095	1st Crusade	19
31249802	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	20
31249803	1271 to 1295	Marco Polo travels	21
31249804	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	22
31249805	1325 to 1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	23
31249806	1347 to 1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	24
31249807	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	25
31249808	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	26
31249809	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	27
31249810	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain	28
31249811	1502	Slaves to Americas	29
31249812	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses	30
31249813	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	31
31249814	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	32
31249815	1571	Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans)	33
31249816	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	34
31249817	1600	Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa)	35
31249818	1607	foundation of Jamestown	36
31249819	1618 to 1648	30 years war	37
31249820	1683	unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	38
31249821	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights Industrial Revolution	39
31249822	1756 to 1763	7 years war/French and Indian War	40
31249823	1776	American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations	41
31249824	1789	French Revolution	42
31249825	1804	Haitian independence	43
31249826	1815	Congress of Vienna	44
31249827	1820s	Independence in Latin America	45
31249828	1839	1st opium war in China	46
31249829	1848	European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto	47
31249830	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	48
31249831	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	49
31249832	1861	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	50
31249833	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in US	51
31249834	1871	German unification	52
31249835	1885	Berlin Conference (division of Africa)	53
31249836	1898	Spanish/American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)	54
31249837	1899	Boer War (British in control of South Africa)	55
31249838	1905	Russo Japanese war	56
31249839	1910 to 1920	Mexican Revolution	57
31249840	1911	Chinese Revolution	58
31249841	1914	WWI	59
31249842	1917	Russian Revolution	60
31249843	1919	Treaty of Versailles (end of WWI)	61
31249844	1929	stock market crash	62
31249845	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	63
31249846	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	64
31249847	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	65
31249848	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	66
31249849	1945	end of WWII	67
31249850	1947	independence & partition of India	68
31249851	1948	birth of Israel	69
31249852	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	70
31249853	1950 to 1953	Korean War	71
31249854	1954	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	72
31249855	1956	de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal	73
31249856	1959	Cuban Revolution	74
31249857	1962	Cuban missile crisis	75
31249858	1967	6 day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution	76
31249859	1973	Yom Kippur war	77
31249860	1979	Iranian Revolution	78
31249861	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada	79
31249862	1989	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall	80
31249863	1991	fall of USSR/1st Gulf war	81
31249864	1994	genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa	82
31249865	2001	9/11 Attacks	83