APWH Must-Know Dates (all) Flashcards
Terms : Hide Images [1]
67024913 | 8000 BCE | beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
67024914 | 3000 BCE | beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's | 1 | |
67024915 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 2 | |
67024916 | 6th century BCE | life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
67024917 | 5th century BCE | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 4 | |
67024918 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
67024919 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 6 | |
67024920 | 32 | beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
67024921 | 180 | end of Pax Romana | 8 | |
67024922 | 220 | end of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
67024923 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
67024924 | 4th century | beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 11 | |
67024925 | 476 | fall of Rome | 12 | |
67024926 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
67024927 | 632 | Rise of Islam | 14 | |
67024928 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
67024929 | 1054 | 1st Schism in Christian Church | 16 | |
67024930 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
67024931 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 18 | |
67024932 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 19 | |
67024933 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
67024934 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
67024935 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
67024936 | 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
67024937 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
67024938 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages / Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
67024939 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
67024940 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
67024941 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue / Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
67024942 | 1502 | slaves to Americas | 29 | |
67024943 | 1517 | Maritn Luther / 95 theses | 30 | |
67024944 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
67024945 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
67024946 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
67024947 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
67024948 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
67024949 | 1607 | foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
67024950 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
67024951 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
67024952 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
67024953 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war / French and Indian War | 40 | |
67024954 | 1776 | American Revolution / Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
67024955 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
67024956 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 43 | |
67024957 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
67024958 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
67024959 | 1839 | 1st opium war in China | 46 | |
67024960 | 1848 | European revolutions / Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
67024961 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
67024962 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
67024963 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom / Italian unification | 50 | |
67024964 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
67024965 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
67024966 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
67024967 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
67024968 | 1899 | Boer War - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
67024969 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war | 56 | |
67024970 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
67024971 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
67024972 | 1914 | WWI | 59 | |
67024973 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
67024974 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 61 | |
67024975 | 1929 | stock market crash | 62 | |
67024976 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
67024977 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
67024978 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
67024979 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
67024980 | 1945 | end of WWII | 67 | |
67024981 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 68 | |
67024982 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 69 | |
67024983 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
67024984 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 71 | |
67024985 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
67024986 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 73 | |
67024987 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
67024988 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 75 | |
67024989 | 1967 | 6-day war / Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
67024990 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 77 | |
67024991 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
67024992 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
67024993 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square / fall of Berlin Wall | 80 | |
67024994 | 1991 | fall of USSR / 1st Gulf War | 81 | |
67024995 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda / 1st all race elections in S. Africa | 82 | |
67024996 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 83 |