APWH Must Know Dates set Flashcards
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145163183 | 8000 BC | beginnings of Agriculture | 0 | |
145163184 | 3000 BC | beginnings of Bronze Age; early civilizations | 1 | |
145163185 | 1300 BC | Iron Age | 2 | |
145163186 | 6th century BC | life of Buddha(Buddhism), Confucious (Confucianism), Lao Tsu (Taoism) | 3 | |
145163187 | 5th century BC | Greek Golden Age; philosophers | 4 | |
145163188 | 323 BC | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
145163189 | 221 BC | Qin unified China | 6 | |
145163190 | 32 AD | Beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
145163191 | 180 AD | end of Pax Romana | 8 | |
145163192 | 220 AD | end of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
145163193 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
145163194 | 4th century | Beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade routes | 11 | |
145163195 | 476 | fall of Rome | 12 | |
145163196 | 527 | Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
145163197 | 622 | founding of Islam | 14 | |
145163198 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
145163199 | 1054 | great schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox). | 16 | |
145163200 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
145163201 | 1071 | battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines) | 18 | |
145163202 | 1095 | 1st crusade | 19 | |
145163203 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
145163204 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
145163205 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
145163206 | 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
145163207 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic Plague in Europe | 24 | |
145163208 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages; rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
145163209 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
145163210 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
145163211 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue (Atlantic Ocean); Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
145163212 | 1502 | 1st slaves to Americas | 29 | |
145163213 | 1517 | Martin Luther; 95 theses | 30 | |
145163214 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
145163215 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
145163216 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto; Naval defeat of the Ottomans | 33 | |
145163217 | 1588 | defeat of Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
145163218 | 1600 | Battle of Sekiganara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
145163219 | 1607 | foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
145163220 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
145163221 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna | 38 | |
145163222 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution; English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
145163223 | 1750 | Industrial Revolution | 40 | |
145163224 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war (French & Indian War) | 41 | |
145163225 | 1776 | American Revolution; Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 42 | |
145163226 | 1789 | French Revolution | 43 | |
145163227 | 1804 | Haitian Independance | 44 | |
145163228 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 45 | |
145163229 | 1820s | Independance in Latin America | 46 | |
145163230 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | 47 | |
145163231 | 1848 | European revolutions; Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 48 | |
145163232 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 49 | |
145163233 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 50 | |
145163234 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom; Italian unification | 51 | |
145163235 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 52 | |
145163236 | 1871 | German unification | 53 | |
145163237 | 1885 | Berlin Conference; division of Africa | 54 | |
145163238 | 1898 | Spanish - American war; US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 55 | |
145163239 | 1899 | Boer War; British in control of South Africa | 56 | |
145163240 | 1905 | Russo - Japanese War | 57 | |
145163241 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 58 | |
145163242 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 59 | |
145163243 | 1914 | WWI | 60 | |
145163244 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 61 | |
145163245 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles; end of WWI | 62 | |
145163246 | 1929 | stock market crash | 63 | |
145163247 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 64 | |
145163248 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 65 | |
145163249 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 66 | |
145163250 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor; entry of US into WWII | 67 | |
145163251 | 1945 | end of WWII | 68 | |
145163252 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 69 | |
145163253 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 70 | |
145163254 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 71 | |
145163255 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 72 | |
145163256 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 73 | |
145163257 | 1956 | de-Stalinization; nationalization of Suez Canal | 74 | |
145163258 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 75 | |
145163259 | 1962 | Cuban Missle Crisis | 76 | |
145163260 | 1967 | 6 day war; Chinese Cultural Revolution | 77 | |
145163261 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 78 | |
145163262 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 79 | |
145163263 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 80 | |
145163264 | 1989 | Tianenmen Square; fall of Berlin Wall | 81 | |
145163265 | 1991 | fall of USSR; 1st Gulf War | 82 | |
145163266 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda; 1st all - race election in South Africa | 83 | |
145163267 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 84 |