AP World History Must Know Dates 8000BCE-2012 Flashcards

Ms. Rodriguez, Ms. Hohne's AP World History Class. Stanton College Prep

283632465	8000 BCE	Beginnings of agriculture	0
283632466	3000 BCE	Beginnings of Bronze Age	1
283632467	1300 BCE	Iron Age	2
283632468	6th Century BCE	Life of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu	3
283632469	5th Century BCE	Greek Golden Age	4
283632470	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	5
283632471	221 BCE	Qin unified China	6
283632472	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	7
283632473	180 CE	End of Pax Romana	8
283632474	220 CE	End of Han Dynasty	9
283632475	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
283632476	4th century	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	11
283632477	476	Fall of Rome	12
283632478	527	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	13
283632479	632	Rise of Islam	14
283632480	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	15
283632481	1054	1st Schism of the Christian Church	16
283632482	1066	Norman conquest of England	17
283632483	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine)	18
283632484	1095	First Crusade	19
283632485	1215	Signing of Magna Carta in England	20
283632486	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	21
283632487	1271-1295	Marco Polo travels	22
283632488	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	23
283632489	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	24
283632490	1347-1348	Bubonic Plague in Europe	25
283632491	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of the Ottomans	26
283632492	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	27
283632493	1488	Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope	28
283632494	1492	Reconquista of Spain	29
283632495	1502	Slaves to America	30
283632496	1517	Martin Luther/95 Theses	31
283632497	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	32
283632498	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	33
283632499	1571	Battle of Lepanto-Navel defeat of the Ottomans	34
283632500	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English	35
283632501	1600	Battle of Sekigahara-beginning of Tokugawa shogunate	36
283632502	1607	Found of Jamestown	37
283632503	1618-1648	30 Years War	38
283632504	1683	unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	39
283632505	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	40
317334994	1756-1763	7 Years' War/French and Indian War	41
317334995	1776	American Revolution/ Smith writes "The Wealth of Nations"	42
317334996	1789	French Revolution	43
317334997	1804	Haitian Independence	44
317334998	1815	Congress of Vienna	45
317334999	1820s	Independence in Latin America	46
317335000	1839	First Opium War in China	47
317335001	1848	Europeans revolutions/ Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto	48
317335002	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	49
317335003	1857	Sepoy Munity	50
317335004	1861	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	51
317335005	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in the US	52
317335006	1871	German Unification	53
317335007	1885	Berlin Conference-division of Africa	54
317335008	1898	Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico	55
317335009	1899	Boer War - British in control of South Africa	56
317335010	1905	Russo-Japanese War/ Decemberist Revolt in Russia	57
317335011	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	58
317335012	1911	Chinese Revolution	59
379545526	1914	WWI	60
379545528	1912	Russian Revolution	61
379545530	1919	Treaty of Versailles; end of WWI	62
379545531	1929	Stock Market crash	63
379545532	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	64
379545533	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	65
379545534	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	66
379545535	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	67
379545536	1945	End of WWII	68
379545537	1947	Independence and partition of India	69
379545538	1948	Birth of Israel	70
379545539	1949	Chinese communist revolution	71
379545540	1950-1953	Korean War	72
379545541	1954	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	73
379545542	1956	de-stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal	74
379545543	1959	Cuban Revolution	75
379545544	1962	Cuban missile crisis	76
379545545	1967	6-day War/ Chinese Cultural Revolution	77
379545546	1973	Yom Kippur War	78
379545547	1979	Iranian Revolution	79
379545548	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada	80
379545549	1989	Tianamen Square/ fall of the Berlin Wall	81
379545550	1991	fall of the USSR/ 1st Gulf War	82
379545551	1994	Rwandan Genocide/ 1st all-race elections in South Africa	83
379545552	2001	9/11 attacks	84
379545553	2003	US declare war on Iraq on March 19th Saddam Hussein captured December 14th	85