"must-know" dates Flashcards

155201344	6th century B.C.E.	life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu	0
155201345	5th century B.C.E.	Greek Golden Age - philosophers, scientists, writers etc...	1
155201346	323 B.C.E.	Alexander the Great	2
155201347	221 B.C.E.	Qin unified China	3
155201348	32 C.E.	Beginnings of Christianity	4
155201349	180 C.E.	end of Pax Romana	5
155201350	220 C.E.	end of Han Dynasty	6
155201351	333 C.E	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	7
155201352	4th century C.E	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	8
155201353	476 C.E	Fall of Rome	9
155201354	527 C.E	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	10
155201355	632	Rise of Islam	11
155201356	732	Battle of Tours (end Muslim expansion into France)	12
155201357	1054	1st schism in the Christian church	13
155201358	1066	Norman (viking) conquest of England	14
155201359	1095	1st crusade	15
155201360	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad (Tamerlane ending Abbasid caliphate)	16
155201361	1271-1295	Marco Polo's travels to Kublai Khan's court	17
155201362	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	18
155201363	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	19
155201364	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	20
155201365	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages	21
155201366	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	22
155201367	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	23
155201368	1492	Columbus/Islam out of Spain	24
155201369	1502	1st Slaves to the Americas	25
155201370	1517	Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation	26
155201371	1521	Cortez conquers Aztecs	27
155201372	1533	Pizarro toppled the Incas	28
155201373	1571	Battle of Lepanto (Ottomans out of global trade networks)	29
155201374	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada by British	30
155201375	1600	Tokugawa Shogunate; unification of Japan	31
155201376	1607	foundation of Jamestown (Pocahontas)	32
155201377	1618-1648	30 years war	33
155201378	1683	unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	34
155201379	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	35
155201380	1756-1763	7 years war, AKA French and Indian war	36
155201381	1776	American Revolution / Smith writes Wealth of Nations	37
155201382	1789	French Revolution begins	38
155201383	1804	Haitian Independence	39
155201384	1815	Congress of Vienna	40
155201385	1820s	Independence movement in Latin America	41
155201386	1839	1st Opium War in China	42
155201387	1848	European Revolutions / Marx writes Communist Manifesto	43
155201388	1853	Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade	44
155201389	1857	Sepoy Mutiny in India	45
155201390	1861	end of Russian serfdom / Italian unification	46
155201391	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in US (promise to free slaves)	47
155201392	1871	German unification (Otto von Bismark's 2nd Reich)	48
155201393	1885	Berlin Conference - European Imperialism / division of Africa	49
155201394	1898	Spanish-American War - US becomes imperialistic - Phillipines, Cuba, PR	50
155201395	1899-1902	Boer War - British control of S. Africa and apartheid	51
155201396	1905	Russo-Japanese War	52
155201397	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution - Father Hidalgo inspires	53
155201398	1911	Chinese Revolution/End of Dynastic cycle AKA end of Imperial China	54
155201399	1914	WW1 begins	55
155201400	1917	Russian Revolution (Lenin and the end of Imperial Russia)	56
155201401	1919	Treaty of Versailles - end of WW1	57
155201402	1929	Stock market crash in US start of global economic depression	58
155201403	1931	Japanese invade Manchuria	59
155201404	1945	end of WW2	60
155201405	1947	independence and partition of India (Gandhi)	61
155201406	1948	birth of Israel	62
155201407	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution (led by Mao Ze Dong)	63
155201408	1950-1953	Korean War (U.N action)	64
155201409	1954	Vietnamese defeat of French at Dien Bien Phu beginning of U.S involvement	65