AP World History Dates Flashcards

66293579	8000 B.C.E	beginnings of agriculture	0
66293580	3000 B.C.E	beginnings of Bronze Age- early civ's	1
66293581	1300 B.C.E	Iron Age	2
66293582	6th century B.C.E	life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of COnfucianism, Buddhism, Taoism)	3
66293583	5th century B.C.E	Greek Golden Age- philosophers	4
66293584	323 B.C.E	Alexander the Great	5
66293585	221 B.C.E	Qin unified China	6
66293586	32 C.E	beginnings of Christianity	7
66293587	180 C.E	end of Pax Romana	8
66293588	220 C.E	end of Han Dynasty	9
66293589	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
66293590	4th century	beginning of Trans-Sharan Trade Routes	11
66293591	476	fall of Rome	12
66293592	527	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	13
66293593	632	rise of Islam	14
66293594	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	15
66293595	1054	1st Schism in Christian Church	16
66293596	1066	Norman conquest of England	17
66293597	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz)	18
66293598	1095	1st Crusade	19
66293599	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	20
66293600	1271-1295	Marco Polo's travels	21
66293601	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	22
66293602	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	23
66293603	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	24
66293604	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	25
66293605	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	26
66293606	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	27
66293607	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain	28
66293608	1502	slaves to Americas	29
66293609	1517	Martin Luther/ 95 Thesis	30
66293610	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	31
66293611	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	32
66293612	1571	Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)	33
66293613	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	34
66293614	1600	Battle of Sekigahara- beginning of Tokugawa	35
66293615	1607	foundation of Jamestown	36
66293616	1618-1648	30 years war	37
66293617	1683	unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	38
66293618	1689	Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights	39
66293619	1756-1763	7 years war/ French and Indian War	40
66293620	1776	American Revolution/ Smith writes Wealth of Nations	41
66293621	1789	French Revolution	42
66293622	1804	Haitian independence	43
66293623	1815	Congress of Vienna	44
66293624	1820's	Independence in Latin America	45
66293625	1839	1st opium war in China	46
66293626	1848	European revolutions/ Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto	47
66293627	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	48
66293628	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	49
66293629	1861	end of Russian serfdom/ Italiam unification	50
66293630	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in US	51
66293631	1871	German unification	52
66293632	1885	Berlin Conference- division of Africa	53
66293633	1898	Spanish-American War- US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	54
66293634	1899	Boer War- British in control of South Africa	55
66293635	1905	Russo-Japanese war	56
66293636	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	57
66293637	1911	Chinese Revolution	58
66293638	1914	WWI	59
66293639	1917	Russian Revolution	60
66293640	1919	Treaty of Versailles- end of WWI	61
66293641	1929	stock market crash	62
66293642	1931	Japanese invasion of Ethiopia	63
66293643	1939	German blitzfrieg in Poland	64
66293644	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	65
66293645	1945	end of WWII	66
66293646	1947	independence & partition of India	67
66293647	1948	birth of Israel	68
66293648	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	69
66293649	1950-1953	Korean War	70
66293650	1954	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	71
66293651	1956	de-Stalinization/ nationalization of Suez Canal	72
66293652	1959	Cuban Revolution	73
66293653	1962	Cuban missile crisis	74
66293654	1967	6-day war/ Chinese Cultural Revolution	75
66293655	1973	Yom Kippur War	76
66293656	1979	Iranian Revolution	77
66293657	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada	78
66293658	1989	Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin Wall	79
66293659	1991	fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War	80
66293660	1994	genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in South Africa	81
66293661	2001	9/11 attacks	82