AP World Must Know Dates Flashcards

366254345	8000 BCE	beginnings of agriculture	1
366254346	3000 BCE	Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilizations	2
366254347	1300 BCE	Iron age	3
366254348	6th Century BCE	life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism)	4
366254349	5th C BCE	Greek Golden Age - philosophers	5
366254350	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	6
366254351	221 BCE	Qin unified China	7
366254352	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	8
366254353	180 CE	end of Pax Romana	9
366254354	220 CE	End of Han Dynasty	10
366254355	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	11
366254356	4th C	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	12
366254357	476	Fall of Rome	13
366254358	527	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	14
366254359	632	Rise of Islam	15
366254360	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	16
366254361	1054	1st Schism in Christian Church	17
366254362	1066	Norman conquest of England	18
366254363	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines)	19
366254364	1095	1st Crusade	20
366254365	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	21
366254366	1271-1295	Marco Polo travels	22
366254367	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	23
366254368	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	24
366254369	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	25
366254370	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomons	26
366254371	1453	Ottomons capture Constantinople	27
366254372	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	28
366254373	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/Reconquista of Spain	29
366254374	1502	Slaves to America	30
366254375	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses	31
366254376	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	32
366254377	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	33
366254378	1571	Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomons)	34
366254379	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	35
366254380	1600	Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa	36
366254381	1607	foundation of Jamestown	37
366254382	1618 - 1648	30 years war	38
366254383	1683	unsuccessful Ottomon siege of Vienna	39
366254384	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	40
366254385	1756-1763	7 years war/French and Indian War	41
366254386	1776	American Revolution/smith writes Wealth of Nations	42
366254387	1789	French Revolution	43
366254388	1804	Haitian independence	44
366254389	1815	Congress of Vienna	45
366254390	1820's	Imdependence in Latin America	46
366254391	1839	1st opium war in China	47
366254392	1848	European revolutions/Marx & engles write Communist Manifesto	48
366254393	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	49
366254394	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	50
366254395	1861	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	51
366254396	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in US	52
366254397	1871	German unification	53
366254398	1885	Berlin Conference - division of Africa	54
366254399	1898	Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	55
366254400	1899	Boer War - British in control of South Africa	56
366254401	1905	Russo-Japanese War	57
366254402	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	58
366254403	1911	Chinese Revolution	59
366254404	1914	WWI	60
366254405	1917	Russian Revolution	61
366254406	1919	Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI	62
366254407	1929	stock market crash	63
366254408	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	64
366254409	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	65
366254410	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	66
366254411	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	67
366254412	1945	end of WWII	68
366254413	1947	Independence & partition of India	69
366254414	1948	birth of Israel	70
366254415	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	71
366254416	1950-1953	Korean War	72
366254417	1954	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	73
366254418	1956	De-Stalinization of Suez Canal	74
366254419	1959	Cuban Revolution	75
366254420	1962	Cuban Missile crisis	76
366254421	1967	6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution	77
366254422	1973	Yom Kippur war	78
366254423	1979	Iranian Revolution	79
366254424	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada	80
366254425	1989	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall	81
366254426	1991	Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War	82
366254427	1994	Genocide of Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa	83
366254428	2001	9/11 attacks	84