APWH "Must-Know"Dates Flashcards

65988692	8000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of agriculture	0
65988693	3000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilizations	1
65988694	1300 B.C.E.	Iron Age	2
65988695	6th Century B.C.E.	Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism)	3
65988696	5th Century B.C.E.	Greek Golden Age - philosophers	4
65988697	323 B.C.E.	Alexander the Great	5
65988698	221 B.C.E.	Qin unified China	6
65988699	32 C.E.	Beginnings of Christianity	7
65988700	180 C.E.	end of Pax Romana	8
65988701	220 C.E.	end of Han Dynasty	9
65988702	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
65988703	4th Century	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	11
65988704	476	Fall of Rome	12
65988705	527	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	13
65988706	632	Rise of Islam	14
65988707	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	15
65988708	1054	1st Schism in Christian Church	16
65988709	1066	Norman conquest of England	17
65988710	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines)	18
65988711	1095	1st Crusade	19
65988712	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	20
65988713	1271-1295	Marco Polo travels	21
65988714	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	22
65988715	1325-1349	Travels of Ibn Battuta	23
65988716	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	24
65988717	1433	End of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	25
65988718	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	26
65988719	1488	Dias rounded Cape of good Hope	27
65988720	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/Reconquista of Spain	28
65988721	1502	Slaves to Americas	29
65988722	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses	30
65988723	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	31
65988724	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	32
65988725	1571	Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)	33
65988726	1588	Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	34
65988727	1600	Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa	35
65988728	1607	Foundation of Jamestown	36
65988729	1618-1648	30 years war	37
65988730	1683	Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	38
65988731	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	39
65988732	1756-1763	7 years war/French and Indian war	40
65988733	1776	American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations	41
65988734	1789	French Revolution	42
65988735	1804	Haitian Independence	43
65988736	1815	Congress of Vienna	44
65988737	1820s	Independence in Latin America	45
65988738	1839	1st opium war in China	46
65988739	1848	European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto	47
65988740	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	48
65988741	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	49
65988742	1861	End of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	50
65988743	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in US	51
65988744	1871	German unification	52
65988745	1885	Berlin Conference - division of Africa	53
65988746	1891	Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	54
65988747	1899	Boer War - British in control of South Africa	55
65988748	1905	Russo-Japanese war	56
65988749	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	57
65988750	1911	Chinese Revolution	58
65988751	1914	WWI	59
65988752	1917	Russian Revolution	60
65988753	1919	Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI	61
65988754	1929	Stock market crash	62
65988755	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	63
65988756	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	64
65988757	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	65
65988758	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	66
65988759	1945	End of WWII	67
65988760	1947	Independence & partition of India	68
65988761	1948	Birth of Israel	69
65988762	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	70
65988763	1950-1953	Korean War	71
65988764	1954	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	72
65988765	1956	de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal	73
65988766	1959	Cuban Revolution	74
65988767	1962	Cuban missile crisis	75
65988768	1967	6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution	76
65988769	1973	Yom Kippur war	77
65988770	1979	Iranian Revolution	78
65988771	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada	79
65988772	1989	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall	80
65988773	1991	Fall of USSR/1st Gulf war	81
65988774	1994	Genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa	82
65988775	2001	9/11 Attacks	83