World History Dates Test Flashcards

158711586	8000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of agriculture	0
158711587	3000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilizations	1
158711588	1300 B.C.E.	Iron Age	2
158711589	6th century B.C.E.	life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taosim)	3
158711590	5thC B.C.E.	Greek Golden Age - philosophers	4
158711591	323 B.C.E.	Alexander the Great	5
158711592	221 B.C.E.	Qin unified China	6
158711593	32 C.E.	Beginnings of Christianity	7
158711594	180 C.E.	end of Pax Romana	8
158711595	220 C.E.	end of Han Dynasty	9
158711596	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
158711597	4thC	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	11
158711598	476	Fall of Rome	12
158711599	527	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	13
158711600	632	Rise of Islam	14
158711601	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	15
158711602	1054	1st Schism in Christian Church	16
158711603	1066	Norman conquest of England	17
158711604	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines)	18
158711605	1095	1st Crusade	19
158711606	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	20
158711607	1271-1295	Marco Polo travels	21
158711608	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	22
158711609	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	23
158711610	1347-1348	Bubonic plaque in Europe	24
158711611	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	25
158711612	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	26
158711613	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	27
158711614	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/Reconquista of Spain	28
158711615	1502	Slaves to Americas	29
158711616	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses	30
158711617	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	31
158711618	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	32
158711619	1571	Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)	33
158711620	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	34
158711621	1600	Battle of Sekigahara-beginning of Tokugawa	35
158711622	1607	foundation of Jamestown	36
158711623	1618-1648	30 years war	37
158711624	1683	unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	38
158711625	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	39
158711626	1756-1763	7 years war/French and Indian War	40
158711627	1776	American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations	41
158711628	1789	French Revolution	42
158711629	1804	Haitian independence	43
158711630	1815	Congress of Vienna	44
158711631	1820s	Independence in Latin America	45
158711632	1839	1st opium war in China	46
158711633	1848	European revolutions/Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto	47
158711634	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	48
158711635	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	49
158711636	1861	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	50
158711637	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in US	51
158711638	1871	German unification	52
158711639	1885	Berlin Conference-division of Africa	53
158711640	1898	Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	54
158711641	1899	Boer War-British in control of South Africa	55
158711642	1905	Russo-Japanese war	56
158711643	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	57
158711644	1911	Chinese Revolution	58
158711645	1914	WWI	59
158711646	1917	Russian Revolution	60
158711647	1919	Treaty of Versailles-end of WWI	61
158711648	1929	stock market crash	62
158711649	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	63
158711650	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	64
158711651	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	65
158711652	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	66
158711653	1945	end of WWII	67
158711654	1947	independence & partition of India	68
158711655	1948	birth of Israel	69
158711656	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	70
158711657	1950-1953	Korean War	71
158711658	1954	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	72
158711659	1956	De-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal	73
158711660	1959	Cuban Revolution	74
158711661	1962	Cuban missle crisis	75
158711662	1967	6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution	76
158711663	1973	Yom Kippur war	77
158711664	1979	Iranian Revolution	78
158711665	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada	79
158711666	1989	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall	80
158711667	1991	Fall of USSR/1st Gulf war	81
158711668	1994	Genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa	82
158711669	2001	9/11 Attacks	83