APWH Must-Know Dates Flashcards

364947992	8000 BCE	Beginnings of agriculture	0
364947993	3000 BCE	Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's	1
364947994	1300 BCE	Iron Age	2
364947995	6 CBCE	Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism)	3
364947996	5 CBCE	Greek Golden Age - philosophers	4
364947997	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	5
364947998	221 BCE	Qin unified China	6
364947999	32	Beginnings of Christianity	7
364948000	180	end of Pax Romana	8
364948001	220	end of Han Dynasty	9
364948002	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
364948003	4 Century	Beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	11
364948004	476	Fall of Rome	12
364948005	527	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	13
364948006	632	Rise of Islam	14
364948007	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	15
364948008	1054	1st Schism in Christian Church	16
364948009	1066	Norman conquest of England	17
364948010	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz)	18
364948011	1095	1st Crusade	19
364948012	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	20
364948013	1271-1295	Marco Polo travels	21
364948014	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	22
364948015	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	23
364948016	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	24
364948017	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	25
364948018	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	26
364948019	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	27
364948020	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain	28
364948021	1502	Slaves to America	29
364948022	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses	30
364948023	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	31
364948024	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	32
364948025	1571	Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans)	33
364948026	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	34
364948027	1600	Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa	35
364948028	1607	foundation of Jamestown	36
364948029	1618-1648	30 years war	37
364948030	1683	unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	38
364948031	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	39
364948032	1756-1763	7 years war/French and Indian War	40
364948033	1776	American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations	41
364948034	1789	French Revolution	42
364948035	1804	Haitian independence	43
364948036	1815	Congress of Vienna	44
364948037	1820s	Independence of Latin America	45
364948038	1839	1st opium war in China	46
364948039	1848	European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto	47
364948040	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	48
364948041	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	49
364948042	1861	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	50
364948043	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in US	51
364948044	1871	German unification	52
364948045	1885	Berlin Conference - division of Africa	53
364948046	1898	Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	54
364948047	1899	Boer War - British in control of South Africa	55
364948048	1905	Russo-Japanese war	56
364948049	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	57
364948050	1911	Chinese Revolution	58
364948051	1914	WWI	59
364948052	1917	Russian Revolution	60
364948053	1919	Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI	61
364948054	1929	stock market crash	62
364948055	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	63
364948056	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	64
364948057	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	65
364948058	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	66
364948059	1945	end of WWII	67
364948060	1947	independence & partition of India	68
364948061	1948	birth of Israel	69
364948062	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	70
364948063	1950-1953	Korean War	71
364948064	1954	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	72
364948065	1956	de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal	73
364948066	1959	Cuban Revolution	74
364948067	1962	Cuban missile crisis	75
364948068	1967	6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution	76
364948069	1973	Yom Kippur war	77
364948070	1979	Iranian Revolution	78
364948071	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada	79
364948072	1989	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall	80
364948073	1991	fall of USSR/1st Gulf war	81
364948074	1994	genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa	82
364948075	2001	9/11 Attacks	83